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Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtue of Brazil's "Surfer Angel" Guido Schäffer in a decree issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on May 20, 2023. / Credit: Photo courtesty of guidoschaffer.com.brVatican City, May 22, 2023 / 11:15 am (CNA).The Catholic Church is one step closer to canonizing a surfing saint. Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtue of Brazil's "Surfer Angel" Guido Schäffer in a decree issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on Saturday. Schäffer was a seminarian, a doctor, and a surfer who drowned while surfing in 2009...

‘His only concern was to save souls to God — guiding as many people as he could to a personal experience with Christ.’

"Teetering between the real and the imagined, these objects [...] possess a ghostly, ephemeral aura," said the art publication in its May issue preview.