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A student at the University of Notre Dame revealed this month that his entire family converted to Catholicism on the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15 — a blessing he attributes to God “trouncing Satan at every turn.”
Colin Smith, who is studying political science and theology at Notre Dame, said on X that “on the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, my whole family came into the Catholic Church.”
The family’s conversion occurred three years after Smith himself came into the Church, he said. The family attended multiple Protestant churches over several years when Smith was younger, he told CNA this week.
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Notre Dame student’s family converts on solemnity of the Assumption
The family’s conversion occurred three years after Colin Smith himself came into the Church.