Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, will celebrate Mass and visit with patients at Sacred Heart Free Home for Incurable Cancer operated by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.

Sunday, July 23, 2006
10:00 a.m.
1315 West Hunting Park Avenue
Philadelphia (Hunting Park)


Mother Alphonsa Lathrop (Rose Hawthorne Lathrop), daughter of acclaimed American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, founded the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. Sacred Heart Home, which was dedicated on April 27, 1930, has provided thousands of needy people who suffer from terminal cancer a home in a Catholic environment, to live their life with dignity. Patients of all creeds, races and nationalities are cared for free of charge.

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