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VOLUME XCV - NO. 7 | 119 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE GOSPEL | APRIL 27-MAY 10, 2019
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Sister Mary Gianna
shares how she found God
after narrowly missing the
Columbine massacre 20 years ago
Not only did God
lead me out of Columbine,
he was leading me
to himself."
E
very school day for almost two
years, Jenica Thornby would
spend her lunch hour in the
library at Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colorado. Every day, except
April 20, 1999.
"I was sitting in my art class when
all of the sudden I had this urge to leave
school. I remember thinking, there is no
way I am going to be talked into staying."
Thornby found her friend that she
always studied with and talked her
into leaving too. As they drove away
in a car her father had bought her
just a week earlier, behind them
they saw hundreds of other stu-
dents running out of the school.
Thinking it was maybe a fi re
drill, Thornby kept driving.
Back inside the school, two
students had entered with
guns, where they would kill
12 students and a teacher, and
wound over 20 more people,
before taking their own lives.
In the days that followed,
Thornby would learn that many
of the casualties took place in the
library, where on any other day she
would have been sitting.
"I remember thinking, I always
went to the library, and the only
reason I wasn't there was because
I had this urge to leave. That was
really hard to wrap my mind
around, and so I really wondered,
'What gave me that urge, why
wasn't I there?'"
Two decades later, Thornby
is now Sister Mary Gianna,
DLJC, and on the
20th Anniversary
BY MARK HAAS
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