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The 21st-century ‘saint’ you’ve never heard of

Posted on Friday, 25 February 2011 Tags: Albert Schweitzer, Bishop Paul Choi Duk-ki, Don Bosco Brass Band, Don’t Cry For Me Sudan, Fr Farrington Ryan, Fr John Lee Tae-seok, Hansen’s disease, Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, John Bradburne, leprosy, President Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, the Schweitzer of Sudan, Tonj

Fr John Lee Tae-soek was once so scared of lepers that he hid from them, but he became their champion

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