This is how a former journalist took a viral meme of Mary holding a javelin and turned it into a million-dollar campaign to support the Ukrainian resistance.

Funds raised by the Saint Javelin campaign have gone toward everything from mental-health charities to armor purchases for Ukrainian forces to the country’s drone program through United24, an initiative headed by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenksy.

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