Nun who went viral at Dodger game recalls lifelong love for the team

📆 10/21/2024 10:13 PM

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📆 10/21/2024 10:13 PM
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Get to know Sister Johnellen Turner, a nun whose photo at a Dodger game in 2018 went viral.

Sister Johnellen Turner sports a blue rosary in honor of her faith and also her love for her favorite baseball team.Among the millions of Dodger fans celebrating the team's spot in the World Series are two nuns who became Internet sensations after a photo captured them praying at a Dodger game in 2018.

“People always say, if they win the game over there, they say we won the game for them because we were praying the rosary,” said Turner. “Well, I think it’s the players had something to do with it, myself.” “We’ve been fans for our lives. I mean, when people say, ‘Do you bleed blue?’ I mean, it's serious,” Turner said with a laugh.“We were with Tommy and I had my rosary out and Sister Joann had hers out,” the nun said. “And Justin Turner was sliding into home plate and he was out.”

Sister Johnellen said her love of the “Boys in Blue” began with her parents, who were Dodger fans when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers. The nun said meeting Lasorda at a rotary club function 16 years ago was life-changing.Sister Johnellen said she and Sister Ashburn remained very close friends since Lasorda’s death in 2021.

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