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Cover: Cross in St Joseph the Worker Church Tardun WA.

Three Artists made this cross in the Church of St Joseph the Worker in Tardun WA.

The first was the Sculptor Hermann Hohaus in 1971. He sculptured the Figure of Jesus.
Fr Edmund Wehrmaker SAC made the Cross of timber from the old buildings that were removed at the time. The buildings were erected in Tardun in 1947-48.
Olive Boddington painted the background in 1998. She was a student here in 1948. The background represents the Tree of Life and the Vine and Branches. It tells us that in God we are united and strong.

 

 

 Cover: Pallotti's Chalice and Pattern

Saint Vincent Pallotti

The Via del Pellegrino is a little street in the heart of old Rome. It is a part of Rome that is notable for its inhabitants' liveliness and still more, for their frank and witty nature, but it is a poor area.
It was here, at Number 130, on the 21st April, 1795 that Vincenzo was born, the third of ten children, of Maria Maddalena de Rossi and Pietro Paolo Pallotti.
The baby was baptized the very next day in the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso, and given three names, Vincenzo Louis Francesco.
While Pallotti's mother took care of the household, his father was engaged in the grocery business. As a smart businessman, he soon rose to a sound middle class position and in few years he owned three grocery stores.
Pallotti was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rome on May 16, 1818 and immediately started to work as a zealous priest.
Vincent Pallotti was the founder of the Union of the Catholic Apostolate, lived his spiritual and apostolic life in the city of Rome heroically and unselfishly.
Father Vinenzo Pallotti died in Rome at San Salvatore on 22 January 1850. He was declared a Saint by Pope John XXIII in 1963.

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