The State - News from Aug. 5, 1987
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The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco visited an AIDS hospice and a Castro District church, where he celebrated a Mass ending a vigil for the disease. Archbishop John R. Quinn called his service at the Most Holy Redeemer Church “an effort to respond to the grief, the sadness, the fear, the hopelessness, the suffering” caused by acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Mass brought to an end the church’s “Forty Hours of Devotion in Response to AIDS,” a vigil first held in 1985 and modeled on one started in Milan, Italy, in 1537 during a bubonic plague epidemic.
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