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St. Louis, Mo., Aug 22, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). As the new school year began, students arriving at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, had two maj...
An initial examination of the belltower did not appear to show signs of structural damage, but college authorities postponed the start-of-the-year Mass of the...
Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel on the New England Campus of Thomas Aquinas College sustained an April 9, 2023, fire causing thousands of dollars in damages. / Courtesy of Thomas Aquinas CollegeBoston, Mass., Apr 13, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).As Father Greg Markey, head chaplain at Thomas Aquinas College's New England campus, opened the door to the sacristy preparing for an early morning hour of eucharistic adoration on Easter Sunday, he was hit by a wall of black smoke. "And immediately I said, 'This is a fire. We have a fire here!'" Markey told CNA April 13. Markey could see flames devouring the floor and walls of the wooden sacristy in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help chapel, which houses tens of thousands of dollars of handmade, antique vestments, along with incense. He immediately sprung into action. Markey ran for the fire extinguisher and gave it his best go at putting out the fire, but the flames raged in the over 100-year-old wooden church, which just...