Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia, will lead approximately seven thousand people from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the 28th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Monday, January 22, 2001. This march marks the tragedy of the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion.

Cardinal Bevilacqua will be joined by seminarians from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, high school students and parishioners from the five-county area of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Marchers from Philadelphia will begin the day at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The contingent traveling from Philadelphia will meet at 12:00 p.m. on the corner of Constitution Avenue and 15th Street. Many schools and parishes sponsor buses to the March for Life; there will be more than 115 buses leaving from throughout the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Monday morning. One departure point for buses is Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. Three buses will leave from the Seminary on

Monday, January 22, 2001
6:15 a.m.
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary
100 East Wynnewood Road
Wynnewood, PA



Cardinal Bevilacqua will also celebrate the annual Mass for Life at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on Sunday, January 21, 2001 at 2:00 p.m.

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Editor's Note: Any media wishing to interview Cardinal Bevilacqua in Washington, D.C. are asked to kindly contact John Cox in the Office for Communications at 215-587-3747 or page John Cox at 215-308-2327.

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