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- DIED. Paul-Emile Leger, 87, Roman Catholic Archbishop of
- Montreal from 1950 to 1967 who startled Canadians when he
- announced that he would quit his position to go to Africa to
- minister to lepers and handicapped children; in Montreal. Leger
- was a leader of the progressive forces at the Second Vatican
- Council, urging that the princes of the church give up some of
- their ostentation and that the church show greater respect for
- other faiths. After touring African leper colonies in 1963,
- Leger decided to work in Cameroon. He explained that he had
- "reached the age where a certain sclerosis of soul and body
- might set in."
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