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This priest was warned by angels to leave his church before it was destroyed in an explosion

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La Courneuve after the explosion of the grenade factory, March 15, 1918.

Anne Bernet - published on 10/26/22
For hours, in the midst of the rubble and toxic fumes, the parish priest took care of the dying and the wounded.

Fr. Jean-Édouard Lamy (1853-1931), the parish priest of La Courneuve (just north of Paris, France) at the beginning of the last century, was an admirable figure of sanctity and has been dubbed “another Curé d'Ars” by the Archbishop of Paris. However, the centrality of the supernatural in his life has often made people forget that he was also a man of action and a committed priest.

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