ABOVE: 1984 photo of parishioners at Thanksgiving Mass at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando. Pictured front and center are Kelly Wilkes, age 2, with her mother, Jean Wilkes, holding her hand and Tom Wilkes, center, walking towards his wife. Several parishioners are carrying paper bags with food donations for the poor in our community. Photo courtesy of the Mario Mesa Photo Archives.
Listen as Orlando attorney Tom Wilkes gives thanks for the blessings of our country in this excerpt from an oral history interview on March 26th, 2011 at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando. “I dearly love the freedom we have in this country. The fact that God has blessed us with a political system and a political culture that says that the people in this country are created by him and are entitled, endowed with inalienable rights as we say in our Declaration of Independence…”
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Thanksgiving Mass at Saint James Cathedral
1984 photo of parishioners at Thanksgiving Mass at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando. Pictured front and center are Kelly Wilkes, age 2,...
Orlando attorney Tom Wilkes gives thanks for the blessings of our country in this excerpt from an oral history interview on March 26th, 2011 at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando. "I dearly love the freedom we have in this country. The fact that God has blessed us with a political system and a political culture that says that the people in this country are created by him and are entitled, endowed with inalienable rights as we say in our Declaration of Independence..."
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