1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous – the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive – their work – was in fact slowly killing them: they had been poisoned by the radium paint. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering, these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice.

Join your fellow parishioners for an informal discussion of best-selling novel The Radium Girls by Kate Moore on Wednesday September 16 at 10:30 AM in the St. Bernard Parish Center. 

For more information please contact Wally Rodier at 516-731-6690 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.