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Sarah Ray’s husband, Casey, was battling brain cancer when she attended her first World Day of the Sick Mass in 2018.
Casey received the Anointing of the Sick at the Mass, held annually at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and organized in collaboration with the Order of Malta. When a member of the order’s Western Chapter suggested they consider joining their annual spiritual healing pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, the couple knew they wanted to go. In fact, they’d been praying to Our Lady of Lourdes for strength.
A year later, Casey made the trip as one of the pilgrimage’s “malades” (the French word for “sick”), accompanied by Sarah. As a memento of their experience, the couple brought home a statue of the Virgin Mary.