Stowe Catholic church celebrates Brother Joseph Dutton at mass
Is Brother Dutton, born in Stowe in 1843, worthy of consideration for sainthood for his 44 years of service to the 19th-century leper colony at Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai? Two people who served with Dutton were recently proclaimed saints â St. Damien and St. Marianne Cope. The Catholic Church has asked Bishop Larry Silva of Hawaii to investigate Brother Duttonâs worthiness to be the third saint of Molokai. On Thursday, April 27, Blessed Sacrament Church in Stowe will celebrate Duttonâs 178th birthday with Mass, at 5:30 p.m., followed by a tour around the church describi...
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