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Article: NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME / PACK PRAYERS; A real Hail Mary; Business is picking up again for the maker of Packers-themed rosaries
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2008
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Sister Isaac Jogues Rousseau, 87, does a few laps around the
beads during Packers games.
And not just on any rosary.
This 2003 inductee into the Green Bay Packers FAN Hall of Fame
uses a Packers rosary that Karla Sponder made, one that spells out
"GO PACKERS" and "GREEN BAY" on alternating decades of Hail Mary
beads and has football-shaped green and gold beads where the Our
Father and Glory Be prayers are said.
"Of course I have one," Rousseau said from her residential room
at the School Sisters of Notre Dame complex in Elm Grove. "How do
you think the Packers win? I am praying for them. And I have all the
Packers in heaven joining me. I have my Packer rosary, and I say it
faithfully around ...