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Members of the Catholic community gathered Saturday morning at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine to recognize the first anniversary of its dedication.

Thousands of pilgrims, faithful visit in first year

“The whole point of pilgrimage is to step away from the daily life that you live and bring yourself into a different space, a different frame of mind. And just resting with God,” Bezak observes.

So much of Stanley Rother's life was unexpected. Rother, who is on the path to Roman Catholic sainthood, did the unexpected as an ordinary man who lived an "extraordinary" life and the new $50 million Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine dedicated on Friday in Oklahoma City, could be described in much the same way.

The birth of Stanley Francis Rother was by all accounts ordinary, aside from the weather. The Catholic farm boy came into the world during an Oklahoma dust storm. But in life – and in death – he was extraordinary.