I first became aware of the art of then-Jesuit Father William Hart McNichols back in the late 1980s when HIV/AIDS was ravaging gay men. His artwork “St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Patron of People with HIV-AIDS and Caregivers” (1987) resonated because I was ministering at the time at St.
Aloysius Church, Jersey City. St. Aloysius was a young Jesuit who refused to stop ministering to the victims of the plague in Rome, contracted it and died from it in 1591.
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