CHURCH POINT, La. — A little girl from the Lafayette area could be on the path to being recognized as a saint. If she is, she would become the first from Louisiana.

“Just pray for us, pray for this cause,” said Fr. Taylor Reynolds of the Diocese of Alexandria, “because at this point it’s in Rome’s hands now.”

Charlene Richard was born in the small town of Richard in 1947. At the age of 12, she was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia. Her parents were told she would not survive. They asked the hospital’s chaplain to tell her.

“He went and told her that she was going to be dying,” said Nanette Reiners, President of the Charlene Richard Foundation, “and every day after that day, when he would go to visit her, she would always ask who she was going to suffer for that day. So she offered

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