Meet the amazing missionary priest who could be one of Minnesota’s first saints

DULUTH, Minn. — A native of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, Father Richard Kunst grew up learning about Msgr. Joseph Francis Buh. “He was a true missionary priest in every sense of the term, of totally sacrificing himself for the good of the church — and the local church up here, which is primarily Native American and then Slovenians,” Father Kunst, who led the first steps of Msgr. Buh’s cause for sainthood, said of the 19th-century Slovenian priest. “But he was for everybody.” Father Kunst,

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