When University of Notre Dame historian J. Philip Gleason received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Catholic Historical Association.
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She died in 1959, at age 12. But for Catholics in her Louisiana community, that was just the beginning of her incredible story and a decades-long fight to make her a saint.