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Jan 14, 2024 · Updated. Visitors pray beside the tomb of Charlene Richard on Saturday, January 13, 2024, at St. Edward Church in Richard. The ceremony is the next step in the Cause for Canonization for “The...
Charlene Marie Richard (January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959) was a twelve-year-old Roman Catholic Cajun girl from Richard, Louisiana, ( 30°25′18″N 92°18′46″W) in the United States. She has become the focus of a popular belief that she has performed a number of miracles.
An ordinary girl, with an extraordinary faith. “O.K., Father who am I to suffer for today?” were the words of Charlene Richard, a 12-year old girl from Church Point, Louisiana. A seemingly normal young lady who would find herself stricken with acute lymphatic leukemia.
May 1, 2023 · Charlene is buried nine miles from her brother’s home in the tiny hamlet of Richard, named for the family’s 18th-century ancestors, the clan listed among the first four documented families that arrived from Acadia in 1764.
CHURCH POINT, La. — Charlene Marie Richard, also known as the Little Cajun Saint, was only 12 years old when she passed, but Acadiana will never let her be forgotten. She passed away from...
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Dec 20, 2022 · Near the end of the first row, past plots of Thibodeaux and Babineux and LeJeunes, lies the raised tomb of Charlene Richard, who died of acute lymphocytic leukemia at age 12 in 1959. Each year...
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Jul 30, 2021 · Charlene Marie Richard was born on Jan. 13, 1947, the second of 10 children of Mary Alice and Joseph Elvin Richard, of Richard. By all indications, Charlene was a normal Cajun girl, devout Catholic (it has been reported that she and her brother John Dale would “play Mass”), a good student interested in sports, horseback riding, music and ...
