{"id":1571,"date":"2007-07-12T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/lady-bird-johnson-and-the-catholic-connection.html"},"modified":"2007-07-12T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T12:23:00","slug":"lady-bird-johnson-and-the-catholic-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/lady-bird-johnson-and-the-catholic-connection.html","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bird Johnson and the Catholic connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> While the world mourns the loss of a true steel magnolia, Lady Bird Johnson, it might be fitting to take a look back at a singular Catholic element of her life: the wedding of her daughter Luci<\/a> in 1966 at Washington’s Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. <\/p>\n

Time magazine, helpfully, detailed every breathless moment<\/a> leading up to the nuptials — even mentioning that Luci didn’t need to be baptized when she converted, since she’d already been christened in the Episcopal church at birth. (Unhappily, the marriage didn’t last; Luci and Patrick Nugent divorced in 1979, and she remarried a Canadian banker.) <\/p>\n

Read the article for more. To my knowledge, this “White House wedding” is the first and perhaps only one to take place in a Catholic church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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