Beloved Rhode Island Judge Frank Caprio has died after a cancer diagnosis, according to posts on his popular social media pages.

Family confirmed his death to NBC affiliate WJAR on Wednesday, a day after he’d asked followers from a hospital bed for their prayers.

“Unfortunately I’ve had a setback, I’m back in the hospital now and I’m coming to you again asking you to remember me in your prayers once more,” Caprio said, referring to a previous bout with pancreatic cancer.

Gov. Dan McKee ordered that Rhode Island flags fly at half-staff through the day of his interment, calling Caprio a “treasure” who connected with people as “a symbol of empathy on the bench, showing us what is possible when justice is tempered with humanity.”

Caprio earned the nickname “the nicest judge in the world” f

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