Benefit for Mercy Center and SVdP’s Catherine’s Center

Thursday, November 4, 2010
7:00 to 9:00 pm

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Please stop by the front desk on the evening of the event. Mercy Center staff will direct you to the room where the event will be taking place.

Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ began her prison ministry in 1981 when she dedicated her life to the poor of New Orleans. While living in the St. Thomas housing project, she became penpals with Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers. Sonnier was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Upon Sonnier's request, Sister Helen repeatedly visited him as his spiritual advisor. In doing so, her eyes were opened to the Louisiana execution process.

Sister Helen turned her experiences into a book that not only made the 1994 American Library Associates Notable Book List, it was also nominated for a 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States was number one on the New York Times bestseller list for 31 weeks. It also was an international bestseller and has been translated into ten languages.

More information is available at Sr. Prejean’s website, www.prejean.org.

For those who have made a reservation, if you have any further questions, call (650) 340-7454 for assistance.