Twin friars pass away on same day. WIVBTV Jun 3, 2011 Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.More
Twin friars pass away on same day.
WIVBTV Jun 3, 2011 Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.
WIVBTV Jun 3, 2011 Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.
Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in 2008.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.
Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in 2008.
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An interesting story and not that uncommon among married couples.
Doctors have long known that stress hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine that are raised by grief can take a damaging toll on the body.
But there may be other forces at play as well. Research shows that in some cases, one person’s heartbeat can affect, even regulate, another’s, possibly acting as a type of life support.
In one such study, Rollin McCraty, research director at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, Calif., looked at what happened to six longtime couples' hearts while they slept. Heart-rate monitors revealed that during the night, as the couple slept beside each other, their heart rhythms fell into sync, rising and falling at the same time. When the printouts of their EKGs were placed on top of each other, they looked virtually the same.
“When people are in a relationship for 20, 30, 40, 50 years, they create sort of a co-energetic resonance with each other,” says Lipsenthal, who is the past director of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Preventative Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif. “A simple analogy is two tuning forks, put next to each other. They create a co-resonant pitch. What happens when two people sleep together for 50 years? What happens when one goes away?”
In recent years, another condition has come to light: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as “broken heart syndrome.”
The condition nearly always follows a traumatic emotional loss, such as death of a spouse, parent or child and it primarily affects women. It causes chest pain and sudden heart failure, believed to be brought on by a surge of fight or flight hormones, says Dr. Barbara Messinger-Rapport, a geriatrician at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Patients with the condition tend to recover faster than most other heart patients, says Messinger-Rapport. And if they survive the initial bout, it almost never recurs.
“Is it possible to die of a broken heart?” says Wechkin. “Absolutely.”
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Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in 2008.
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An interesting story and not that uncommon among married couples.
Doctors have long known that stress hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine that are raised by grief can take a damaging toll on the body.
But there may be other forces at play as well. Research shows that in some cases, one person’s heartbeat can affect, even regulate, another’s, possibly acting as a type of life support.
In one such study, Rollin McCraty, research director at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, Calif., looked at what happened to six longtime couples' hearts while they slept. Heart-rate monitors revealed that during the night, as the couple slept beside each other, their heart rhythms fell into sync, rising and falling at the same time. When the printouts of their EKGs were placed on top of each other, they looked virtually the same.
“When people are in a relationship for 20, 30, 40, 50 years, they create sort of a co-energetic resonance with each other,” says Lipsenthal, who is the past director of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Preventative Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif. “A simple analogy is two tuning forks, put next to each other. They create a co-resonant pitch. What happens when two people sleep together for 50 years? What happens when one goes away?”
In recent years, another condition has come to light: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as “broken heart syndrome.”
The condition nearly always follows a traumatic emotional loss, such as death of a spouse, parent or child and it primarily affects women. It causes chest pain and sudden heart failure, believed to be brought on by a surge of fight or flight hormones, says Dr. Barbara Messinger-Rapport, a geriatrician at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Patients with the condition tend to recover faster than most other heart patients, says Messinger-Rapport. And if they survive the initial bout, it almost never recurs.
“Is it possible to die of a broken heart?” says Wechkin. “Absolutely.”
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Frailes Gemelos mueren el mismo día a los 92 años
Julian y Adrian Riester fallecieron con una diferencia de pocas horas en un hospital de Florida. Ambos eran frailes franciscanos y la comunidad a la que pertenecían calificó a la insólita fatalidad como "un final casi poético".
Los hombres habían nacido con pocos minutos de diferencia en Buffalo. Tras enrolarse en la orden de los Frailes Menores …More
Frailes Gemelos mueren el mismo día a los 92 años
Julian y Adrian Riester fallecieron con una diferencia de pocas horas en un hospital de Florida. Ambos eran frailes franciscanos y la comunidad a la que pertenecían calificó a la insólita fatalidad como "un final casi poético".
Los hombres habían nacido con pocos minutos de diferencia en Buffalo. Tras enrolarse en la orden de los Frailes Menores, pasaron 35 años trabajando juntos en tareas de carpintería y jardinería en la Universidad de St. Bonaventure.
Ambos fallecieron el miércoles en el Hospital de St. Anthony, en St. Petersburg, en la Florida, a donde se trasladaron en 2008 desde el oeste de Nueva York.
La universidad para la que habían trabajado gran parte de su vida recordó que los Riester fueron frailes franciscanos durante 65 años. El vocero de esa congregación, Tom Missel, señaló que el fallecimiento el mismo día "es casi un final poético".
Su primo, Michael Riester, aseguró que lo sucedido es "una confirmación de que Dios era partidario de ellos".
Julian y Adrian sólo fueron separados dos veces en su vida. Una, a fines de los años 40 cuando trabajaron en diferentes iglesias -una en Manhattan y otra en Boston- y una década después cuando, ambos en Buffalo, fueron asignados a diferentes sedes.
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Julian y Adrian Riester fallecieron con una diferencia de pocas horas en un hospital de Florida. Ambos eran frailes franciscanos y la comunidad a la que pertenecían calificó a la insólita fatalidad como "un final casi poético".
Los hombres habían nacido con pocos minutos de diferencia en Buffalo. Tras enrolarse en la orden de los Frailes Menores, pasaron 35 años trabajando juntos en tareas de carpintería y jardinería en la Universidad de St. Bonaventure.
Ambos fallecieron el miércoles en el Hospital de St. Anthony, en St. Petersburg, en la Florida, a donde se trasladaron en 2008 desde el oeste de Nueva York.
La universidad para la que habían trabajado gran parte de su vida recordó que los Riester fueron frailes franciscanos durante 65 años. El vocero de esa congregación, Tom Missel, señaló que el fallecimiento el mismo día "es casi un final poético".
Su primo, Michael Riester, aseguró que lo sucedido es "una confirmación de que Dios era partidario de ellos".
Julian y Adrian sólo fueron separados dos veces en su vida. Una, a fines de los años 40 cuando trabajaron en diferentes iglesias -una en Manhattan y otra en Boston- y una década después cuando, ambos en Buffalo, fueron asignados a diferentes sedes.
america.infobae.com/notas/26477-Gemelos-m…
NY-born twin friars die on same day at age 92
Fri Jun 3, 9:39 pm ET
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week. The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St. Bonaventure University, doing …More
NY-born twin friars die on same day at age 92
Fri Jun 3, 9:39 pm ET
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week. The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St. Bonaventure University, doing carpentry work, gardening and driving visitors to and from the airport and around town.
"It was fun to see them, just quiet, gentle souls," Yvonne Peace, who worked at the St. Bonaventure Friary for nearly 21 years, said Friday.
They died Wednesday at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., Brother Julian in the morning and Brother Adrian in the evening.
Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in 2008.
"It really is almost a poetic ending to the remarkable story of their lives," St. Bonaventure spokesman Tom Missel said. "Stunning when you hear it, but hardly surprising given that they did almost everything together."
Julian and Adrian Riester were born Jerome and Irving on March 27, 1919, to a couple who already had five daughters. They took the names of saints upon their ordination in the Catholic church.
"Dad was a doctor and he said a prayer for a boy," Adrian once said, according to St. Bonaventure. "The Lord fooled him and sent two."
After attending St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, the brothers were turned away by the military because of their eyesight, the university said. One had a bad left eye, the other a bad right eye.
Eventually they joined the friars of Holy Name Province in New York City. They received separate assignments before reuniting at the seminary at St. Bonaventure from 1951 to 1956. After serving parishes in Buffalo for 17 years, they returned to St. Bonaventure in 1973 and spent the next 35 years there.
They had separate rooms in the friary but one telephone extension that rang into both, Peace recalled. It was usually the more talkative Adrian who answered, though Julian possessed a quiet authority. They never said who was born first.
"Brother Julian was like the big brother. Brother Adrian would defer to him," Peace said. "They picked up one of our friars at the airport one time and the friar said, 'Can I take you to dinner?'
"Brother Adrian looked at Brother Julian and said, 'We aren't going to dinner?' 'No, we'll go home,'" Peace said. "So that was it. No discussion, no contradicting. 'No, we aren't going today.'"
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday at St. Mary Our Lady of Grace Church in St. Petersburg. Afterward, the brothers' bodies will be flown to Buffalo and buried Wednesday at St. Bonaventure Cemetery, across the street from the university.
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Fri Jun 3, 9:39 pm ET
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week. The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St. Bonaventure University, doing carpentry work, gardening and driving visitors to and from the airport and around town.
"It was fun to see them, just quiet, gentle souls," Yvonne Peace, who worked at the St. Bonaventure Friary for nearly 21 years, said Friday.
They died Wednesday at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., Brother Julian in the morning and Brother Adrian in the evening.
Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in 2008.
"It really is almost a poetic ending to the remarkable story of their lives," St. Bonaventure spokesman Tom Missel said. "Stunning when you hear it, but hardly surprising given that they did almost everything together."
Julian and Adrian Riester were born Jerome and Irving on March 27, 1919, to a couple who already had five daughters. They took the names of saints upon their ordination in the Catholic church.
"Dad was a doctor and he said a prayer for a boy," Adrian once said, according to St. Bonaventure. "The Lord fooled him and sent two."
After attending St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, the brothers were turned away by the military because of their eyesight, the university said. One had a bad left eye, the other a bad right eye.
Eventually they joined the friars of Holy Name Province in New York City. They received separate assignments before reuniting at the seminary at St. Bonaventure from 1951 to 1956. After serving parishes in Buffalo for 17 years, they returned to St. Bonaventure in 1973 and spent the next 35 years there.
They had separate rooms in the friary but one telephone extension that rang into both, Peace recalled. It was usually the more talkative Adrian who answered, though Julian possessed a quiet authority. They never said who was born first.
"Brother Julian was like the big brother. Brother Adrian would defer to him," Peace said. "They picked up one of our friars at the airport one time and the friar said, 'Can I take you to dinner?'
"Brother Adrian looked at Brother Julian and said, 'We aren't going to dinner?' 'No, we'll go home,'" Peace said. "So that was it. No discussion, no contradicting. 'No, we aren't going today.'"
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday at St. Mary Our Lady of Grace Church in St. Petersburg. Afterward, the brothers' bodies will be flown to Buffalo and buried Wednesday at St. Bonaventure Cemetery, across the street from the university.
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