How Our Lady Granted a Dying Man’s Last Request for Confession: 'I Shall Not Die...Without a Priest'
"Every day since my first communion, I have prayed to the Blessed Virgin, asking her not to let me die without a priest at my bedside."
Ishmael Adibuah
Ishmael Adibuah, a native of Detroit, Michigan, is an alumnus of Michigan State University and the Angelicum in Rome. He is also a member of the Thomistic Institute.
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