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Poster announcing the Feast Day of Blessed Benedict Daswa / Diocese of Tzaneen/ South Africa

South Africa’s Blessed Daswa “a model for us to follow, imitate”: Bishop on Feast Day

Feb 2, 2021

A Bishop in South Africa has, in a reflection on the Feast Day of Blessed Benedict Daswa, the country’s first potential saint, termed him a model that the people of God can “follow and imitate.”

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