Thursday, February 19, 2009

Jesuit Discovers "The Blessed Mother" Was Among George Washington's Effects


The Rev. W.C. Repetti, S.J., archivist at Georgetown University, reports he has discovered this information in an appendix to a biography of Washington. The book is a Life of George Washington by Edward Everett, published by Sheldon & Co. in New York in 1860. "The fact that he had a picture of the Blessed Virgin is rather unexpected, and, to the best of my knowledge, has not been brought out, " says Fr. Repetti.

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Engraving of George Washington on his death bed

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