"what lies beneath"
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PERFORMANCES HELD AT ST. BONAVENTURE ORATORY BASEMENT THEATER
1625 W. DIVERSEY PARKWAY (ENTRANCE ON MARSHFIELD ST.)
STAY AFTER FOR THE AUDIENCE TALKBACK Q & A
WITH JIM MALLON & LEIGH JOHNSON
FOLLOWING EACH SHOW!
NINE YEAR OLD JIMMY MALLON
SUBTEXT THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS WORLD PREMIERE OF CHICAGO IMMIGRANT'S BIOGRAPHICAL STORY.
JAMES MALLON TODAY
Who is James Oliver Mallon you may ask? James was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1942. At the age of 9 in 1951 he was diagnosed with cancer (a tumor) in his leg which they were set to cut off until his mother stopped the procedure. After which they tried Cobalt treatments which did not work. It was a family friend that was able to raise enough money to send young Jimmy to Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes France, but just enough money to send Jimmy, not his family. He traveled alone with a group of pilgrims to Lourdes and bathed in the healing waters in search of a miracle cure of his cancer. As he returned home there was no change in his condition but there was no change in his mothers determination. Leigh Johnson poses this question to his audience, was this a miracle that happened to James Mallon or a miracle that happened for his mother?