WALTER T. HUGHES, JR., M.D. is a physician-scientist and Emeritus Chairman, Department of Infectious Diseases at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He has held positions of Eudowood Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and University of Tennessee College of Medicine and Captain, U. S. Army. In addition to more than 500 scientific publications his books from creative writing include The Yellow Martyrs (2000), The Last Leaf (2003), Ghosts of Misery Island (2006), Suffer the Little Children (2011), From Wales to Pneumocystis and AIDS (2015) and Dr. John H. Erskine: A Yellow Martyr (2016).
On Hallowed Ground
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
by Walter T. Hughes, Jr., M.D.
On Hallowed Ground
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
by Walter T. Hughes, Jr., M.D.
Published Apr 16, 2018
143 Pages
Genre: HISTORY / General
Book Details
ON HALLOWED GROUND
The history of a tiny plot of ground on which the renowned St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital exists holds a truly remarkable story of suffering, happiness and intrigue. Since Hernando de Soto arrived there in 1541 AD and claimed the area in the name of Spain and the Catholic Church, events have occurred within this half mile that lead us to refer to it as “hallowed ground”. The crowning glory came from afar in recent years when the son of Lebanese immigrants in Detroit, Danny Thomas, prayed to St. Jude Thaddeus for direction in his life and promised to build a shrine to the Saint. Why he chose to build his shrine as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and why he placed it on our hallowed half mile in Memphis will enhance the faith of the most hardened heart.