A blessing and a smile on World Day of the Sick

March 1, 2011

HOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM

Bishop William Callahan of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., at left, visits Gunhild O'Brien, a 99-year-old patient at Sacred Heart Hospital of Eau Claire, Wis. Joining the bishop is Monsignor Edmund Klimek, Sacred Heart's senior priest chaplain. The bishop was at Sacred Heart to mark the Feb. 11 World Day of the Sick, and he celebrated Mass in the hospital's chapel to bless the sick and their caregivers.

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