Joseph Verbis Lafleur
Joseph Verbis Lafleur was a Roman Catholic priest of the Military Ordinariate of the United States who died in the sinking of the and is in the preliminary stages for sainthood.Beatification
On October 2014, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana, led by Bishop John Douglas Deshotel, officially opened the cause for his beatification. He is to be the second candidate for sainthood from Lafayette Diocese after the Servant of God Auguste Nonco Pelafigue, a layman, whose cause for sainthood was opened on April the same year.
