{"id":1641,"date":"2016-09-28T01:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2016-09-28T01:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:36:46","slug":"benedictine-abbot-was-at-arnold-palmers-bedside-when-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Benedictine abbot was at Arnold Palmer\u2019s bedside when he died"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arnold Palmer acknowledging the crowd on the 18th during the Champions Challenge at St Andrews, Fife, in 2015 (PA)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Archabbot Douglas Nowicki said prayers and blessed the golf legend shortly before he died<\/p>\n

Benedictine Archabbot Douglas Nowicki of St Vincent\u2019s Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was with Arnold Palmer when the golfing great died on September 25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first time Archabbot Nowicki had visited Palmer that day. Palmer, 87, was in a hospital awaiting a heart operation scheduled for September 26. \u201cI went to say a prayer and give him a blessing. About an hour after I\u2019d departed, I got a call\u201d that Palmer\u2019s health was failing rapidly, the archabbot told Catholic News Service in a September 26 telephone interview.<\/p>\n

Even though Palmer was a lifelong Presbyterian, he\u2019d had a relationship with St Vincent\u2019s spanning more than 50 years, when Archabbot Nowicki himself was in the high school at the archabbey.<\/p>\n

Palmer did not let denominational differences deter him. \u201cArnie sort of appealed to everyone. There were no barriers, race, colour, creed \u2014 those were things that never entered into\u201d his mind, Archabbot Nowicki said. \u201cHe was welcoming to everybody and treated everyone with tremendous warmth and respect.\u201d Palmer came with his wife on occasion to the arch abbey\u2019s 7.30 a.m. Sunday Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember him coming here on one occasion after winning several of the golf tournaments early in his career. He was hitting golf balls for the students. By then he had a fairly good reputation,\u201d Archabbot Nowicki recalled. \u201cHe would give a little demonstration. I remember when he was doing it they put a little trash pail out in the middle, about 150 yards out, and he was hitting balls out and he got about five in the tanker,\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n

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