Path to sainthood for ancestor of British royals catholicleader.com.au
A 19th century English Catholic priest, a distant relative of Britain’s Prince William, is on the path to sainthood.
Pope Francis has approved a decree recognising the “heroic virtues” of George Spencer, a son of the 2nd Earl of Spencer and a priest of the Passionist religious order who lived from 1799 to 1864.
Spencer, converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1830 in Rome and was ordained to the priesthood in 1832. He took the name “Ignatius of St. Paul.”…
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