A local place of peace will soon be featured on national television in the coming months.
Film crews spent much of the day at The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Perryville Tuesday for a documentary about National Shrines in the United States for the Eternal Word Television Network.
“I know it’s a place of peace and it draws a lot of people here,” host of the documentary Nell Andrzejewski said. “I wanted to find out more about it and I think it’s a place people can find what they are looking for spiritually.”
There will be more shrines featured in this documentary, but the shrine in Perryville is a special place,
“This is a wonderful place that has a great significance in the faith community,” Andrzejewski said. “It needs to be featured in this documentary. “
CEO of the Association of the Miraculous Medal at the National Shrine of our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Don Fulford said that it is great that the campus is being featured.
“It affirms what our community already knows, and that is that this is a very special place,” Fulford said. “For EWTN, a national network to come knock on our door really emphasizes, the great community that this is, the people that work here, and the special place that it is.”
The documentary will most likely feature National Shrines from bigger cities, Perryville might be one of the smaller cities fetured in the documentary.
“To have this place in Perry County featured in a huge Catholic Network come to us makes it special.,” Fulford said.
A few years ago, the Shrine was featured on a farming show, but this is the first time the campus will be feaured on a faith based network. The program should air sometime this fall. The Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initials EWTN, is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming.
“We were part of a farming show because we were part of a farming community , but nothing like this,” Fulford said. “This is big.”
