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Relic graces local faithfuls
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | about 1 month ago
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Damien De Veuster rested briefly yesterday at the church where he led his Kalaupapa congregation in worshipping God 130 years ago. The lei-bedecked koa box containing a heel bone of the priest was placed before the altar for a joyous, music-filled Mass...
Pope canonizes 5 new saints
Vatican City :: Vatican City | about 1 month ago
Credibility Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints on Sunday, including a 19th century priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated Hawaiian island, praising them as models of perfection for sacrificing themselves for others...Peter's Basilica was...
Tags: Pope Benedict XVI, Hawaiian, Father Damien, Damien De Veuster, Blessed Damien de Veuster, lung cancer, Vatican, hawaii resident, resident audrey, 19th century
'Miracle' Hawaiian: Damien's already a saint
Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Hawaiian woman whose recovery from lung cancer was called miraculous says the Belgian-born priest she prayed to is already a saint, even before the pope canonizes him Sunday. Audrey Toguchi, in Rome for the ceremony, says Father Damien's work with...
Tags: Father Damien, Hawaiian, Damien De Veuster, Vatican, Molokai, 19th century, Roman Catholic Church, St. Peter, Rome
Leper priest to be saint
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Neither fact is stopping 11 elderly Hawaii leprosy patients from traveling 12,000 miles to the Vatican this month to watch as the Catholic Church canonizes Father Damien, a priest who cared for leprosy patients throughout the islands more than a century...
Tags: Detroit News, Damien de Veuster, Father Damien, Detroit
Damien to be canonized Oct. 11
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Father Damien de Veuster will become Hawaii's first saint on Oct. 11: "It is upon us," said Bishop Larry Silva, calling a little after 1 a.m. this morning, Hawaii time, from Rome. "Thanks be to God." Silva had just finished viewing a consistory, or gathering,...
Tags: Damien de Veuster, Father Damien De Veuster, Hawaii Catholic Bishop, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Larry Silva, canonize dates, Pope Benedict XVI
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