Here are pictures that were taken at the Peace
Crane Making Party. Students and teachers had fun,
refreshments, and music while they made origami peace
cranes for the Diocesan Peace and Social Justice
Ministry. These origami cranes will be displayed at
the St. Charles Borremeo Center on annual Peace Day,
May 3, 2008. This tradition started in Japan, after
Sadako, a young girl in a hospital suffering
from the effects of Hiroshima, was told that
legend had it that if you made 1,000 paper cranes,
your wish would be granted. Sadako, her friends,
and visitors made over 1,000 paper cranes in
the hopes Sadako would survive. Although
she didn't, the tradition continues, and three years
after she died a statue was erected for all of the
children who died because of the bomb. It is of a
young girl holding a huge folded crane.