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Catholic priest stabbed live on TV at Canada's biggest church

Catholic priest Claude Grou, pictured on March 1, 2019, was "slightly wounded" in the stabbing, police said

A priest was stabbed in front of his congregation live on television during morning mass on Friday at Canada's biggest church, in what police described as an isolated incident.

Footage broadcast on a Catholic television station and picked up by the top-rated CTV network showed a man in jeans, parka and white baseball cap approach Claude Grou at St Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, in front of 60 horrified parishioners.

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