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Guatemalan Bishop Julio Edgar Cabrera, right, looks over a Rother Family photo book with Juan Pablo Ixbalan, left, at the Rother Family home in Okarche, Okla, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Stanley Rother, an American priest killed during Guatemala's civil war, is on the path to possible sainthood. Ixbalan knew Rother during his time in Guatemala. A ceremony for Rother's Beatification is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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In this photo provided by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Father Stanley Rother is pictured in an undated photo in Guatemala. Rother, an American priest killed during Guatemala's civil war, is on the path to possible sainthood. A ceremony for Rother's Beatification is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. (Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Photo via AP)

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