Editing Mychal Judge (section)

==Early life==
Mychal Judge was born Robert Emmett Judge on May 11, 1933, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the son of immigrants from [[County Leitrim]], Ireland, and the firstborn of a pair of [[Twin#Fraternal (sororal/dizygotic) twins|fraternal twins]]. His twin sister Dympna was born two days later. Judge was baptized in St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn on June 4. The twins, and their older sister Erin, grew up during the [[Great Depression]].<ref>{{harvp|Ford|2002|p=44}}</ref>

From the ages of three to six, he watched his father suffer and die of [[mastoiditis]], a slow and painful illness of the skull and inner ear. To earn income following his father's death, Judge shined shoes at [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|New York Penn Station]] and would visit [[St. Francis of Assisi Church (Manhattan)|St. Francis of Assisi Church]], located across the street. Seeing the Franciscan friars there, he later said, "I realized that I didn't care for material things. ...I knew then that I wanted to be a friar."<ref>{{harvp|Daly|2008|pp=7–19}}</ref>