Descendants celebrate miracle of Ignatius Strecker

11 MARCH 2018 -- ST. LOUIS -- Photograph Helen (Strecker) Crump shared among descendants of German immigrant Ignatius Strecker, during a reunion after Mass at the Shrine of St. Joseph Sunday, March 11, 2018 in the Columbus Square neighborhood of St. Louis. Strecker descendants gathered to remember the healing of the Strecker, thought mortally ill, during an 1864 service honoring Jesuit priest Peter Claver, a missionary who worked among slaves in South America during the 17th century. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. Helen (Strecker) Crump was born in 1866, two years after the miracle. Photo © copyright 2018 Sid Hastings.

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11 MARCH 2018 -- ST. LOUIS -- Photograph Helen (Strecker) Crump shared among descendants of German immigrant Ignatius Strecker, during a reunion after Mass at the Shrine of St. Joseph Sunday, March 11, 2018 in the Columbus Square neighborhood of St. Louis. Strecker descendants gathered to remember the healing of the Strecker, thought mortally ill, during an 1864 service honoring Jesuit priest Peter Claver, a missionary who worked among slaves in South America during the 17th century. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. Helen (Strecker) Crump was born in 1866, two years after the miracle. Photo © copyright 2018 Sid Hastings.