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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 is a saint—a person who is in heaven—who has performed a number of miracles. Local Catholic clergy and diocesan officials permitted, promoted, and participated in the popular veneration of Richard for years prior to her being named a Servant of God, the first step in the canonization process.
Though no official canonization procedures had begun for Richard, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette began collecting in 1991 testimonials about reputed help obtained through her.[15] Unlike the traditional support for canonization of a saint, which begins with popular devotion and is only later recognized by the church, support for Richard began outside her immediate home area and was first promoted by the clergy, beginning with Brennan, Crowley, and Calais. The bishop of the Lafayette diocese at the time of her death, Maurice Schexnayder, visited her grave multiple times and referred to her as a saint.[1] Another bishop of the diocese, Harry Flynn, presided at the thirtieth anniversary mass in 1989, along with sixteen other priests.[8] The diocese also approved the creation of a private organization, the Friends of Charlene, to spread her story.[15]
In January 2020, Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette officially opened the cause of Richard’s sainthood during a Saturday mass at the Immaculata Center in Lafayette, along with a local religious figure, an Arnaudville teacher and evangelist Auguste Nonco Pelafigue. Following the mass, Richard and Pelafigue were officially named “Servant of God”, the first step in sainthood
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