Former Nun Hits $1.5M Jackpot

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Former Nun Hits $1.5M Jackpot
Woman Will Share With Family, Former Order

POSTED: 9:59 a.m. EDT June 25, 2003

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- It's not just pennies from heaven.

A former nun has hit the jackpot at a casino in Atlantic City.

Catherine Foy, of Philadelphia, won $1.5 million playing a slot machine. She had played just nine quarters when the bells started ringing on Sunday.


"I always knew that the Lord was going to help me pay my bills, I just didn't know that it would be so soon," Foy said.

The 56-year-old former nun took home a check for $78,000 and will receive an equal amount for the next 19 years.

Foy told an Atlantic City newspaper that she'll pay off her debts and share the winnings with her family and her former order, the Sister Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary.
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[streetsoldier]

God bless her, but I seriously doubt of I'd share any winnings with "Sister Mary Discipline" (first grade) of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood (usually, the student's)... :?

[bfez1]

How lucky can you get????

[Colin]

Lucky, Lucky her... Yeah really... How lucky CAN you get? :o

[TexasStooge]

Lucky her!

[mamadude]

now theres a lucky "SISTER" :LOL

[David]

I heard that, lucky her. 70,000+ a year.

[Amanzi]

Way to go Sister