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January 31, 2012

To: Leo Sheridan, Grand Knight (KofC Council # 6806)

From: Joe Schamer, DD3

Re: The visit of an Icon of “Our Lady of Guadalupe” to Our Lady Queen of Heaven parish.

Fellow Knights and families of Knights:

It is my pleasure to announce that the Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be present at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Spanaway from Friday, February 10th until Sunday evening, February 12th.

This Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been blessed by Pope Benedict XVI and is a Class three Icon. The Icon has touched the tunic of Juan Diego and there is soil in it from the place of the miracle in Mexico City that occurred in 1531.

The purpose of the visit of the Image to this area of Washington State is to promote the sanctity of human life in the hearts of all people.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, as patroness of the Americas, has special significance to the Knights Of Columbus. When our Order sponsored a tour of a relic of St. Juan Diego’s tilma in 2003, Our Lady of Guadalupe’s role as Mother of all in the Americas became very clear.

In city after city, crowds of tens of thousands of people came to venerate Our Lady of Guadalupe. What was most striking was not the number of people, but the number of nationalities and ethnicities represented in each gathering. Likewise, at the Guadalupe Festival Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in 2009 in Phoenix, more than 20,000 people came to venerate and celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is the hope of all Knights that this prayer program will continue to expand the devotion to Our Lady and the evangelization of the Americas.

May God Bless you and your families…