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By Belinda Olivares-Cunanan
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Last updated 02:18am (Mla time) 11/06/2007


Last Oct. 29, I attended the ceremony where French Ambassador Gerard Chesnel presented the formal document from French President Nikolas Sarkozy to 49-year-old French Jesuit Fr. Jean-Francois Thomas, electing him as knight in the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.

Father Thomas, who has been living here since 1996, was recognized for founding in 1998 Tulay ng Kabataan Foundation (TNK -- Bridge of Youth), which rescues the neediest children from...Read the article