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Sainthood Process: Thousands of Pages

Clip: 4/29/2011 | 3m 31s

Learn about the paperwork that must be gathered before someone can be proclaimed a saint.

Watch as Rev. Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P., academic dean at the at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, shows correspondent Kim Lawton some of the thousands of documents he assembled as "postulator" or point person for the sainthood cause of Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus.

04/29/2011 | Rating NR

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