Cuban friar put on path to sainthood
Thousands of Cubans, including President Raul Castro and Communist Party
leaders, flocked to a Catholic ceremony on Saturday putting a 19th century
monk on the path to sainthood.
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Saturday's Mass honored Friar Jose Olallo Valdes, known as the father of the poor. It was the first beatification ceremony on the island.
"From here on, let him be called blessed," said the pope's representative, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican.