Happy Black Friday

Danny Thomas outside St Jude's Children's Hospital.

I'm giving a little something to St Jude's Hospital this year. I've always wanted to do that. After deciding it was a good place to send a donation, I read the info below. It didn't influence my decision to give, but it was nice to learn.

"Mr. Thomas, a Roman Catholic, was long known for his strong religious faith. He often said that in the difficult early days of his career, when his wife was urging him to give up show business and get a regular job, he prayed to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless, impossible and difficult cases. He asked the saint to put him on the right path, vowing that if the saint did so he would build him a shrine.

That shrine, built with the assistance of many other people, was the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which was dedicated in 1962. Mr. Thomas spent much of his time raising money for the hospital, which he long considered his most important accomplishment. "That's my epitaph," he said in a recent interview. "It's right on the cornerstone: Danny Thomas, founder." Source >

No Danny on the homepage, but his legacy lives on. St Jude's Children's Hospital >

[2014-11-23]

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