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Catholics turn to Mary and saints amid Los Angeles wildfires

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Several Catholics who have fled the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have been praying for the intercession of Our Lady of Champion, who once saved a rural Wisconsin shrine from a devastating inferno.

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, Catholics with connections to that shrine are praying for Mary to grant Angelenos another miracle now.

Father Tony Stephens, a member of the Fathers of Mercy and rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion near Green Bay, offered Mass Jan. 10 for intentions related to the Los Angeles fires. He prayed for an end to the fires and for rain, for people’s safety, for firefighters and police, for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and “for people to quit pointing fingers right now” in blame, he told OSV News.

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