The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17

him for death, and to their surprise he pres
emily avowed that he was the man who killed
Father Jogues He embraced the Christian
faith and died like man, though not like
savage.
The old mission was destroyed in 1884, in
the French and English war, but before that
it is now always called-the Mission of the
Martyrs. In 1884, Just two centuries later,
was begun the attempt to reopen 1t, not as
a mission in the old sense but as SHRINE n1
of Our Lady Of Martyrs. 1t had been in 1915
the shrine Of Our Lady of Foye Qaith), when
Father James a5 Lam -taok the famous
statue from Quebec to the mission. NOW the
shrine is known by the latter name. .
The shrine is located to the southwark OF
the present village and is reached by road
leading up over the Hill of Prayer. One
side of this road is bordered by weeping will
lows; from the other is a view of the famous
ly beautiful valley of the Mohawk Vest
ward, across the Hill of Prayer, is the deep
shaded ravine In which two water courses
meet at the junction of which Father Jo-
CUES hid the body of Rene Goupil: while to
the eastward the Schoharie river may be
seen on it's way to the Mohawk.
Each year since 1884 the month of August
has seen these pilgrimages, and they have
grown larger year by year, until, as was
said, it is expected that there will be more
than 10 900 on the spot next Sunday to cele-
brate the feast of the Assumption.
The beatihcation of these three martyrs
is a somewhat complicated process, and IN
wolves no little expense. Speaking OF tne
of the League of the Sacred Heart said to
Sunday World reporter
HOW SAINTS ARE BEATIFIED.
1.-The enrolling of the name of new saint
is by no means as simple matter as might
be imagined by laymen. The bestowal OF
this honor is not the exclusive work OF the
sovereign pontif but is in some measure
that of every member of the church Of what
ever degree. Bishops must aid in 1t by their
counsels priests by their pleadings, all VINO
do NV thnir nv
their aims and the poor by their prayers.
The examinations demanded by the Holy See
before any servant Of God can ever be pro-
posed for beatifcation are exceedingly rigid,
and In meeting those examinations much
labor and great expense are involved.
at Is necessary to collect, authenticate, ex-
anime and copy the best documents bearing
upon the case scattered as they are, in this
instance. in different libraries in Canada,
France, Italy and the United States; to search
out, verify and present for examination the
correspondence and writings of the persons
to be proposed; to compile the various tes-
timOnies concerning them in books written
from their time down to our own; to collect
the traditions that still exist as to their vir-
tues, heroic deaths and powers of interces-
sion with God; to meet the salaries of secre-
taries and their assistants in many different
places and the cost of transplating, printin
and publishing the various processes in va
rious languages, and the expenses OF travel
and the necessary fees of the postulator for
the advocates and their assistants.
Considerable progress has been made in
the preparatory work. The Rev. Arthur
Jones, formerly professor in the College of
st. Francis Xavier, has been appointed to
act advocate of the cause of the beatifica-
ton, and If all goes well, he will doubtless
present the case this year. 1t will first be
presented to a board of three bishops in this
country, who must report favorably on it
before 1t is presented at Rome One of these
three will be Bishop Burke, of Albany, and
the Archbishop of Montreal will probably be
another"
Besides securing funds for the beatifcation
of Father Jogues and his associates 1t Is
proposed to enrich the shrine Over So, 900 has
been spent ON the model for statue of Our
Lady of Martyrs, which it is proposed to
erect there. The sculptor is Bella Pratt, now
of Boston. and the model now stands in the
house of the Apostleship of Prayer, Nos 81
and 29 West Sixteenth street. in New York
city.