Pope to decide on sainthood
Updated on 03 July 2008
The Pope is to decide if Father Damien, a Belgian priest who dedicated his life in the 19th century to serving leprosy patients in Hawaii, will become a saint.
The Pope will be presented a document attributing a modern miracle to the priest, who helped leprosy patients exiled to a remote peninsula on Molokai, one of the Hawaiian islands.
Under the Vatican's saint-making procedures, two miracles must to attributed to the candidate's intercession in order for the person to be made a saint.
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