THOUSANDS OF ST. LOUISANS GATHER TO PRAY, MOURN VICTIMS OF ATTACKS THREE STAR Edition

In Belleville, about 3,000 people attended an evening prayer service and rally at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. Catholic and Protestant clergymen read Psalms and led prayers. Choir members from St. Matthew's United Methodist Church in Belleville sang patriotic songs, backed up by the Bel...

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Published inSt. Louis post-dispatch
Main Author Phyllis Brasch Librach Of The Post-Dispatch Heather Ratcliffe, Holly K. Hacker, Doug Moore And Patrick E. Gauen Of The Post- Dispatch Contributed To This Report
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis, Mo Pulitzer, Inc 17.09.2001
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Summary:In Belleville, about 3,000 people attended an evening prayer service and rally at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. Catholic and Protestant clergymen read Psalms and led prayers. Choir members from St. Matthew's United Methodist Church in Belleville sang patriotic songs, backed up by the Belleville Philharmonic Orchestra. Among those sitting in the front row of the amphitheater were Mitzi Mitchler, Carolyn Trice and Trice's mother, Mary. The three women, who live in the same neighborhood of Chesterfield, already had been to weekend services at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica and in Forest Park. PHOTO; (1) Color PHOTO by KEVIN MANNING / POST-DISPATCH - Nardi Hobler of University City collects her thoughts as she listens to a prayer at an interfaith gathering in Forest Park. (2) Color PHOTO by CHRIS LEE / POST-DISPATCH - Prahalad Tarigopula of Maryland Heights, originally of Hyderabad, India, prays at the Hindu Temple of St. Louis in Ballwin before the start of a prayer meeting in memory of the victims of attacks in New York and Washington.
ISSN:1930-9600