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He's Gerry Faust and he still believes in miracles.
How else do you explain what happened during a trip to Our Lady of Lourdes in France in 1980? Gerard Anthony Faust was just a high school coach then, but a darn good one -- lost only 23 games in 19 years, won five state championships. If it was ever going to happen, it was going to happen at Notre Dame.
So he lit that candle at the shrine in Lourdes known for miracles and said a few prayers. Two weeks later Fr. Edmund Joyce called.
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