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‘Father Damien’ among new Vatican saints

Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints Sunday, including a 19th-century priest who worked with ostracized leprosy patients in Hawaii before contracting the disease himself and dying from it.

Posted byadminOctober 12, 2009Posted inDaily NewsTags: 19th, benedict, century, hawaii, leprosy, patients, pope, saints, xvi
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