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CNFather Damien To Be Saint
July 3, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI cleared the way for Father Damien to be declared a saint today. At the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the pope pope approved of a miracle of intercession of a Honolulu woman who claimed that praying to Father Damien cured her of her cancer. The approval means that Father Damien, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1995, will be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
