Detroit friar renowned for cures to be beatified in November

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Fr Solanus Casey, a Capuchin Franciscan "who would provide soup for the hungry, kind words for the troubled and a healing touch for the ill," will be beatified on November 18, the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph in Detroit has announced.

The ceremony will take place at Ford Field in Detroit, which the province said would be configured to accommodate 60,000 people.

A member of the Detroit-based province and one of the co-founders of the city's Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Father Casey was born on November 25, 1870, and died July 31, 1957.

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