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Remembering the Our Lady of the Angels school fire 60 years later

It has been 60 years, but Serge Uccetta remembers Dec. 1, 1958 like it happened recently. That’s the day fire engulfed his elementary school, Our Lady of the Angels near Hamlin and Chicago avenues, taking the lives of 95 people — 92 students and three women religious.

Advent: The season to encounter Christ, the Coming One

One of the most ancient titles of Jesus in the liturgical tradition of the church is He Who Is to Come. It captures the essence of the Resurrection, rightly portraying Jesus not only as someone raised from the dead 2,000 years ago, but as someone who is in our midst, active and bringing about something new in the world.

Our Lady of the Angels School fire never forgotten

Ninety-five people — 92 students and three teaching nuns — died in the fire that rampaged through the second floor of the north wing of the Our Lady of the Angels School near Hamlin and Chicago avenues, on Dec. 1, 1958.

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