[Catholic / Devotional Caucus] The Conversion of Two Death-Row Prisoners (1944) Editor’s Note: These two conversion stories have been taken (and edited) from the booklet, The Miraculous Medal, by the Militia Immaculata of Traditional Observance.The Conversion of Claude NewmanClaude Newman, an African American man, was born in 1923 in Arkansas, but lived most of his life with his beloved grandmother, Ellen, in Mississippi. In 1939, she married a man named Sid Cook, who soon became abusive toward her – which deeply angered Claude. In 1940, Claude began working as a farmhand on a local plantation where Sid had been born...