New York Cardinal Compares Slain Teacher Anne Marie Murphy To Jesus [View all]
Source: Hartford Courant
Comparing a slain teacher to Jesus, Cardinal Timothy Dolan told mourners Thursday that Anne Marie Murphy's death in the Connecticut elementary school shootings helped unify a nation moved by what she had done.
In a suburban New York church crowded to overflowing, the cardinal said Murphy "has brought together a community, a nation, a world, now awed by her own life and death" as her relatives expressed sympathy for the dozens of other families in mourning after the massacre in Newtown, Conn, on Dec. 14.
Murphy, 52, was among 26 teachers and students killed when 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza opened fire on Sandy Hook Elementary School classrooms in one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings. Lanza, who had shot his mother dead at their home, ultimately killed himself at the school.
Authorities told Murphy's father she died trying to protect her young pupils, according to the father, Hugh McGowan. Her body was found covering a group of children's bodies as if to shield them, McGowan said.
"Like Jesus, Annie laid down her life for her friends," he said. "Like Jesus, Annie's life and death brings light, truth, goodness and love to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness and death."
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