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Remembering 9/11's first recorded victim, Irish American Father Mychal Judge
On September 11, 2001, after the planes hit the World Trade Center, Father Mychal Judge ran into the North Tower alongside the firemen he served.
Soon after he was recorded as the first victim of the terrorist attacks.
*Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the Irish Voice newspaper, a sister publication to IrishCentral, in September 2014.
Extremely proud of his Irish heritage, Robert Emmett Judge was born in Brooklyn on May 11, 1933, to two Irish emigrants from County Leitrim.
At the age of 16, he answered his calling to the Franciscan vocation and entered St. Joseph’s Seraphic Seminary in Callicoon, New York where he was received into the Franciscan Order on August 12, 1954.
In 1957, he graduated from St.
Bonaventure University, the Franciscan school near Olean, New York. He was ordained into the priesthood on February 25, 1961.
After taking a vow of poverty, Judge became committed t
