Minnesota Catholic couple among missing in shipwreck

Submitted on January 25, 2012
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Theresa Malloy | Catholic News Service
Jerry and Barb Heil are among the missing after a Jan. 13 cruise ship crash off the coast of Italy.
Jerry and Barb Heil are among the missing after a Jan. 13 cruise ship crash off the coast of Italy.
via Catholic News Service
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. -- Friends and parishioners of St. Pius X Church in White Bear Lake reflected on the lives of Jerry and Barb Heil at an evening prayer service Jan. 18. On Jan. 19, divers resumed the search for 21 people still missing after a Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed into the Italian coast Jan. 13. The Heils are the only Americans who remained unaccounted for among the more than 4,200 passengers. As of Jan. 25, 16 people died and another 16 were still missing. At St. Pius X, about 450 people gathered to sing, pray, reflect, light candles and pay tribute to the Heils.

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