Those we lost in 2020, a year in which death was familiar to many aleteia.org

2020 has been a year — more than any other in recent memory — in which death has been familiar and frequent. With some 1.7 million deaths from the novel coronavirus globally, it’s likely that most people knew someone who died of COVID-19 this past year.

For many, it was someone close.

On Wednesday, churches in the Archdioceses of New York and Boston, and the Diocese of Brooklyn, rang their bells to remember and honor the 335,000 lives lost to COVID-19 to date in the United States…

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