A papal audience
October 1915. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor, has an audience with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV. Pictured with Eileen are her Irish cousin, Miss Kilgallin; Rev. Patrick White, an enthusiastic supporter; and Signor Vincenzo Sacconi, her Roman lawyer. It is a little more than a year since Eileen has regained the use of her legs.
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