Dedication of Father Varela Memorial

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In the courtyard of Transfiguration Church and School in Lower Manhattan, Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros of Brooklyn dedicates and blesses a memorial of Father Felix Varela, featuring the words of Our Father behind his statue. Father Andrew O’Connor, administrator of St. Mary’s, Grand Street, had the art concept for the memorial. Father Varela, a native of Cuba who was declared venerable in 2012, was Transfiguration’s founding pastor in the 19th century.