New York, June 29: A former nun's prayers were answered last weekend when she won 1.5 million dollars on an Atlantic city slot machine.
Catherine Foy, 56, who was once with the sister servants of the holy heart of Mary, had spent only nine quarters, or 2.25 dollars, when the winning bells began ringing at Caesars Atlantic city.
''I always knew the Lord was going to help me pay my bills. I just didn't know that it would be so soon,'' Foy said in a statement issued by the makers of the slot machine, international game technology. Philadelphia resident Foy has already received the first of 20 annual payments of 78,000 dollars, the company said.
The former lady of the cloth, now a social work supervisor for the city of Philadelphia, plans to pay off her bills, make a donation to the nuns and share the money with her family in the United States and in Cuba.


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