Catholic community to honor Charlene Richard, more than 60 years after her death. The event will be held on her birthday at St. Edward Roman Catholic Church.
After a Louisiana 12-year-old’s sainthood cause got the world’s attention, two friends went to learn her story for themselves. What they found surprised them.
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.