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Keen was the lamentation, sonorous the drumming which last August howled from the strange Church of the Innocent Blood in a swampy outskirt of New Orleans. Mother Catherine Seal, mulatto foundress of a faith-healing Afro-Catholic cult, was dead in far-away Lexington...
...nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness. That morning he refused to take the elevator down from his private apartment, walked down the long flights. In his heavy vestments he mounted his sedia gestatoria and was carried to the canonization ceremonies at St. Peter's. They lasted five hours. He perspired profusely, several times passed his hand wearily over his face. Near him was the Rt. Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, Bishop of Newark, N. J., only American prelate so honored...
...vowed himself to perpetual chastity. preached in Normandy, founded in 1641 the Institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge; St. John Baptist Vianney (1786-1859), famed parish priest of the little French village of Ars; St. Magdalen-Sophy Barat (1779-1865), foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart; St. Mary Magdalen Postel (1756-1846), foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of Christian Schools; St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), who "saved for the Church of Rome the Catholic Germany of today"; St. Therese de Lisieux, the "Little Flower" Carmelite nun who became a bride of Christ when...
...careful inspection. The columns are of marble from Kilkenny. The reredos is said to be one of the finest church decorations in Europe. Here, also, there are more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small and of no special interest in itself, but in it stands the chair of Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when he wrote "Charles O'Malley...