A pilgrimage of faith

By News Staff on Monday, August 18, 2025
Family from NY state travels to Richard for Mass honoring “The Little Cajun Saint”
  • The Stansbury Family, Ryan and Sophie and their daughters Cecilia and Charlene, address the crowd at the annual Charlene Richard Mass. The family prayed to the “The Little Cajun Saint” for a healthy birth of their daughter Charlene. (LSN photo by Claudette Olivier)
    The Stansbury Family, Ryan and Sophie and their daughters Cecilia and Charlene, address the crowd at the annual Charlene Richard Mass. The family prayed to the “The Little Cajun Saint” for a healthy birth of their daughter Charlene. (LSN photo by Claudette Olivier)
    By: CLAUDETTE OLIVIER LSN Editor RICHARD — At a Mass held each Aug. 11, several of the first few pews in St. Edward Catholic Church in Richard are filled with the surviving family of Charlene Marie Richard, ‘The Little Cajun Saint,’ but this year, another young girl bearing the name Charlene Marie was also seated in one of those pews. Coincidence? No. The almost 8-month-old Charlene ...

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