Franciscan Friar becomes first Coronavirus patient to die in Washington DC

By AGNUS DEI -




John-Sebastian Laird-Hammonda, a member of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America has become the first person to die of the novel coronavirus in the District, Rev Fr Larry Dunham, superior of the Monastery confirmed on Saturday March 21.

Fr Dunham also revealed that, the Friar who was a Deacon often battled nausea after his treatments for leukemia but had seemed in to be in some of the best health earlier in February with a twist turn on him being diagnosed of the deadly coronavirus

On his part, the Deacon had been at the monastery since the late 1980s and had for the last 14 years run its day-to-day operations as the business manager and  had recently been approved for a transfer to an order in New York, where he was going to be involved in fundraising efforts for missions in Central America.

“It was going to be like a whole new focus and life for him,” he said. “That was to be his new assignment that never quite materialized”, he said.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced the news of the first death on Friday but did not identify Laird-Hammond by name.

D.C. officials said the person was admitted to a hospital last week with fever and cough and may have had contact with a previous patient.

Source: LUMENCHRISTI-DAILY


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