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On the road to sainthood, here's the story of Brother Joseph Dutton — born April 27, 1843, in Vermont. He lived a life of penance serving the Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, patients at Kalaupapa for 44 years.
A Louisiana girl often called "The Little Cajun Saint" has been moved a second step toward actual sainthood, along with a teacher who evangelized door to door in Cajun country and a man who worked for decades at a Hansen's disease colony in Hawaii.
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana girl often called “The Little Cajun Saint” has been moved a second step toward actual sainthood, along with a teacher who evangelized door to door in Cajun country and a man who worked for decades at a Hansen's disease colony in Hawaii.