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Article: Church beatifies Brother Rice
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 14, 1996
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Who cares if he's not quite a saint in the eyes of the church?
When Edmund Rice was beatified by the Catholic Church last week,
he was a saint to the 1,400 teenagers at his namesake school at 10001
S. Pulaski.
They got the day off.
Not students Dan Lazarz and Kevin Carter, though. They were in
Rome for the beatification ceremony at St. Peter's Square, joining
50,000 other Roman Catholics.
"When I heard his name called out - Brother Rice - it made me
proud to be part of Brother Rice High School," said Lazarz, 17, of
Alsip.
Lazarz and Carter, 17, of Evergreen Park, along with about 25
religious brothers and alumni from the all-boys school traveled last
week to the Vatican for the ...