The first ever canonized Scout?

Kenneth Hynek • 15th Oct 2009 • Religion, Catholicism, Scouting
Baden, Baden Powell, canonization, Catholicism, Hungary, Scouting, Stephen Kaszap, the Church

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This is pretty darn cool:

…Stephen Kaszap, a Hungarian man who may become the first Boy Scout to be canonized as a saint…We ask you to pray for Stephen’s beautification and canonization which we, and many other Catholic Scouting organizations, hope will take place in 2010, the 100th anniversary of the founding of Boy Scouts by Lord Baden-Powell.

Very cool. One wonders whether he’d become the new patron saint of Scouting, unseating George from the duty. Probably not, given that Scouting is closely linked with England, which George also represents, but it’s interesting to speculate.

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