It Started with One Man’s Prayer
The work that goes on at St. Jude can only be described as the culmination of kindness and the result of a prayer made by a struggling entertainer during the last years of the Great Depression.
This young man, Danny Thomas, had dreamed of being an entertainer since his very early days. But those were not easy times, and the future didn’t look much better for this talented, but seemingly hopeless, dreamer. His job prospects were poor, and his wife was expecting their first child. He didn’t have the money to pay for her hospital stay.
His struggles led him to a church in Detroit, where he prayed this prayer to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless cases: “Help me find my place in life, and I will build ...
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