Fire Killing 92 Kids in Catholic School Remains a "Mystery"
Friday, January 6, 2012
In learning of the organized crime committed by catholic nuns worldwide in their institutions, has caused a great interest in taking a closer look at the mysterious Chicago fire in the Our Lady of the Angels elementary school...especially knowing how nuns function with immunity, remain silent when questioned about their crime and their known schemes to cover up evidence by burning down places to later claim that records were lost in the fire.
The tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago over 50 years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief.
Considered one of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of 92 kids and 3 nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, leaving families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and destroyed a close-knit working-class neighborhood.
Astonishingly, some of the nuns, out of frozen panic or blind faith, told their students not to flee but to get on their knees and pray and wait for the firemen.
There is a book entitled To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire which tells the the moving story of that fire and its consequences written by two journalists who have been obsessed with the events of that terrible day in December 1958.
It is a true story of a disaster that shocked the nation. In gripping detail, those who were there—children, teachers, firefighters—
describe the fear, desperation, and panic that prevailed in and around the stricken school building on that cold Monday afternoon.
But beyond the flames, the story of the fire at Our Lady of the Angels became an enigma whose mystery has deepened with time: its cause was never officially explained despite evidence that it had been intentionally set by a troubled student at the school.
The fire led to a complete overhaul of fire safety standards for American schools, but it left a community torn apart by grief and anger,
and accusations that the Catholic church and city fathers had shielded the truth.
Authors David Cowan and John Kuenster have recreated this tragedy in a powerful narrative with all the elements of a first-rate detective story.
