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Alyse Pfeil

Catholics descend on Missouri abbey to see body of nun who is ‘part of history’

GOWER, MO. -- Back in eighth grade, Lily Myers chose Mother Teresa for her patron saint for confirmation.

Now 20 and going into her junior year at Kansas State University, Myers said most of the saints she has studied existed in “older times.”

But this week, she joined other Catholics who have traveled to a Benedictine monastery in the small town of Gower to see what many are calling a miracle.

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