The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, October 4, 1994               TAG: 9410040467
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
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PETS BLESSED IN NORFOLK

ILLUSTRATION: Staff photo by KEVIN ELLIOTT

Pastor Mark Schroeder talks to Krystal Miglin, 4, after blessing

Princess, her cat, at St. John's Lutheran Church on Tidewater Drive

in Norfolk Monday. The Feast of the Blessing of the Pets, a Lutheran

tradition, is tied to the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.

by CNB