A priest was stabbed in front of his congregation live on television during morning mass on Friday at Canada's biggest church, police said. Footage broadcast on a Catholic television station and picked up by the top-rated CTV network showed a man in jeans, a parka and a white baseball cap approach
1 / 3Catholic priest Claude Grou, pictured on March 1, 2019, was "slightly wounded" in the stabbing, police saidCatholic priest Claude Grou, pictured on March 1, 2019, was"slightly wounded" in the stabbing, police said Montreal - A priest was stabbed in front of his congregation live on television during morning mass on Friday at Canada's biggest church, police said.
Witness Adele Plamondon, told public broadcaster Radio-Canada the priest was about to start reading the gospel, when"this man drew a knife and ran up to stab him." Saint Joseph's Oratory, built from 1920 to 1955, sits atop the north face of Mount Royal overlooking Canada's second-largest metropolis, and attracts some two million pilgrims and tourists each year.
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