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.Dolores Sheen, standing, a niece of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, and her daughters Lynn McCaddon and Mary Lou Sheen pray at the tomb of the famed evangelist and media pioneer and sainthood candidate at St. Mary s Cathedral in Peoria, Ill., Feb. 4, 2021. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody) .Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria, Ill., applauds as a city traffic operations worker unveils a newly erected sign designating Madison Avenue outside of St. Mary s Cathedral as Honorary Bishop Fulton Sheen Ave. Archbishop Sheen, a candidate for sainthood, was a famed media evangelist, mission promoter and author who is buried at the cathedral. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
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While Peoria’s wet and windy weather Thursday necessitated some minor changes in plans, it did not dampen a midday celebration honoring the legacy of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Diocese of Peoria leaders and city officials came together in unveiling and blessing four street signs renaming the portion of Madison Avenue in front of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception after Sheen, a candidate for sainthood.
“These were the streets where he grew up,” said Monsignor Stanley Deptula, Executive Director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation and Director of the Sheen Canonization Cause. “As a young priest, he walked the streets of the south side of Peoria going door to door, walking around, bringing the message of the gospel to the people of his neighborhood.