CHAVAGNES-EN-PAILLERS, France, May 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Out of a total of 22 recently vaccinated priests in the retirement home of a missionary community in France, 21 were infected with COVID, and four of them died within ten days of each other between the end of April and the first days of May. Two others are said still to be in a critical condition.
There have been no press reports on the situation in France.
The events took place in the small town of Chavagnes-en-Paillers in the Vendée, on the west coast of France, at a local religious home, and were confirmed in local obituaries. Their deaths took place between April 28 and May 8.
Prior to the unusual series of deaths over a short period, 23 elderly priests, both French and foreign, lived as a community in the congregation’s historic buildings, receiving some help from non-religious employees from the neighborhood.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, given the old age and comorbidities of the majority of the residents, the community was very careful to follow all government orders and recommendations and rarely if ever ventured outside of their grounds, according to local observers. Nor did
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