“Coincidence is the word
we use when we can't see
the levers and pulleys.”
Emma Bull
Coincidences are sometimes described as “the
chance encounter of seemingly unrelated circumstances,
miraculously merged into a significant event, almost as if
knitted together by invisible hands.”
No matter what you call it, everyone agrees that the string
of occurrences following the theft of a safe from a small
parish was quite remarkable.
THE SEQUENCE
Sometime, in the early hours of March 3, 2010, thieves
broke into St. Mary Immaculate Conception-Torun (also
known as St. Mary’s) in Stevens Point, WI and stole their
safe, an ancient, heavy square weighing about 425 pounds.
Days later, authorities investigating a string of burglaries
in Portage and Waupaca Counties, arrested three suspects.
Police found St. Mary’s safe abandoned on a dead-end road.
The safe was no longer useable because whoever took
it chiseled and drilled out the safe’s bottom.
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Top: Parish priest, Father Wesley Janowski stands in from of St. Mary Immaculate
Conception-Torun. Left: Lukas Vuorinen is in his element when he is around anything
John Deere-related. Right: Lukas shows off his John Deere-themed bedroom.
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Neighbors-April 2011