Word: sainthood
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...business is to show and make credible the violent agonies of an inchoate young peasant priest on the way to sainthood. At their first climax young Father Donnisan contends with Satan face to face and conquers him; at their second, the same night, he meets the young girl, so shatters her that she retreats pell-mell to Satan, cuts her throat. The priest is locked up as a madman. Later he is given an obscure parish...
...past 16 years, 50 new saints-a record-have been canonized by Pope Pius XI, who has notably speeded up the process, which formerly took from 25 years to several centuries. One candidacy for sainthood which has moved rapidly is that of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Nov. 8, et ante-). Last month the Sacred Congregation of Rites decreed that Mother Cabrini be beatified and called "Blessed" in St. Peter's in Rome next November-the last...
...Today, 8,911 nuns of her order, eight colleges, 160 high schools and academies, 447 parochial elementary schools and many a hospital and asylum are her monuments. Last week, Rev. Leonard Feeney, poet and associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, argued her claims to sainthood in an eulogistic, lyrical biography.† Cried he: "It will be the signalization in time-for our newspapers (you know our flair for publicity?) will give it their largest headlines-and the commemoration in Eternity ... of the first American girl who 'made good' according to God's exact standards...
...Church, if it found he had been responsible for miracles, would give him the title "Venerable." Appointed Vice-Postulator, or working advocate of the cause, was Franciscan Father Augustine Hobrecht of Santa Barbara Mission. But Father Augustine may not live to see Fray Junipero's canonization, for sainthood may take from 25 to 100 years...
...have their saints. John Reed, dead at 33, buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark, but that...