Senior Living | Catholic faith helps centenarian with challenges
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MILAN, Ind. -- Emelie Weil, a 110-year-old parishioner at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Milan, has lived in three centuries, during 10 papacies and 20 U.S. presidencies.
Throughout 11 decades, Weil said, her Catholic faith has sustained her.
Considered a supercentenarian, she even survived a broken neck from a fall down a stairway 12 years ago. Now she uses a wheelchair and has a hard time hearing, but is still astute.
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