A long road to sainthood for nurse Sybil


Exemplary courage: Sybil was tortured by the Japanese secret police for supporting the resistance movement.

GEORGE TOWN: The process of beatification and canonisation of civilian hero Sybil Kathigasu will take a few years to be completed, says the Penang diocese.

Its civil officer Christopher Kushi said the task has been handed to Father Eugene Benedict from the Kuala Lumpur archdiocese.

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