A blind leper priest from Argentina was beatified on Saturday.
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On hand were 3,000 gauchos, or Argentine cattle herders, wearing ponchos of the kind Brochero did. He was known here as the "gaucho priest."
Brochero, who died of leprosy, lived from 1840 to 1914.
Angela Amato, a cardinal representing Pope Francis, who is Argentine, oversaw the Mass.
Beatification is the last step before canonization, or sainthood.
"This shepherd who smelled of sheep became poor among the poor," the pope said in a letter read out at the Mass.
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Source-AFP