CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles times
By TONY PERRY
Roman Catholic Bishop Cirilo Flores died Saturday after a battle with cancer, the Diocese of San Diego announced.
Flores, 66, died at 2:47 p.m., at the Nazareth House senior living facility in Mission Valley where he had been transferred Friday from a hospital in Los Angeles.
Flores “passed away peacefully,” with his cousin Dr. Tom Martinez, Msgr. Steven Callahan and the Sisters of Nazareth at his bedside, the diocese said.
“Please remember Bishop Flores and his family in your prayers,” the diocese added.
On Wednesday, the diocese had announced Flores was suffering from cancer that was “widespread, very advanced and very aggressive” and that doctors determined he was not a candidate for chemotherapy because of “his very weak condition and the advanced stage of the disease.”
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