Sainthood cause being considered for priest who left ‘indelible mark’ on Michigan catholicnewsagency.com
It is hard to overstate the impact Fr. Gabriel Richard, a French missionary priest, had on the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit, in particular.
From co-founding the University of Michigan, to starting Detroit’s first newspaper, penning the city’s motto and caring for its poor and sick, Richard “left an indelible mark on all of Michigan,” Monsignor Charles Kosanke, rector of the Basilica of Ste. Anne in Detroit, told The Detroit News…
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- St. HunnaSt. Hunna Feast date: Apr 15 Known as "the Holy Washerwoman", St. Hunna was a 7th century noblewoman who cared for and bathed the poor of Strasbourg, France. Pope Leo X canonized her in 1520. She is the patroness of laundry workers and laundresses.
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