Re: Sainthood Sought for POW Priest
Date: January 10, 2004
"Sainthood
is sought for Kansas-born priest
Religion News Service
January 10, 2004
WICHITA, Kan. -- Supporters of sainthood for a Kansas-born Roman Catholic priest
who died a prisoner of war in Korea have started a formal campaign to raise
money and gather information the Vatican requires for canonization.
The Diocese of Wichita has endorsed the cause of the Rev. Emil Kapaun.
Kapaun grew up near Pilsen, attended Catholic school in Missouri, served his
home church in Pilsen, then went off to war as a military chaplain.
He died in 1951 at a POW camp and apparently was buried in a mass grave near
the Yalu River. He was 35.
As veterans returned from the war, they began telling how they owed their lives
to Kapaun.
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