The age-herald., 1900-02-19
THE MAKING OF
 4 NEW SAINT
Impressive Ceremony to Take Place in Rome During
 the Year 1900.

Among the events that will make the the Catholic church will be the canoniza- tion of two new saints. They are St. Rita of Cascia and St. Jean Baptiste de la Sale.
 St. Rita of Cascia was nun of the Au- gustinian order, and her great popularity. especially among the poor, is due to the fact that she obtains answers to prayers that have been made for seemingly hope less things As the result she is popularly known as La Santa degl' Impossible" the patroness of the impossible. She was born a peasant, in Rocca Porrena di Cascia, a villege of Umbria, and was married early in life to a man who treated her most un- kindly. She bore his brutality with great patience however and when he was killed by one of his enemies, after eighteen years of married life, she entered a convent, be- coming an Augustine nun. During the re- mainder of her life she displayed great pie ty and since she died, May 21 1443, it is be- lieved that she had helped to perform many miracles Her body is still shown -rtouched by corruption, in the Cathedral of cascia
 The second saint to be canonzed, Jean Baptiste de la Salle, was born at Rhemes, France, in 1851 He came of a good family, his father being one of the most wealthy men in the city. Soon after becoming a priest he was made canon of the cathedral at Rheims. He was a man of singular pie ty renounced his paternal inheritance and family advantages, made no effort to obtain a high position in the church, and lived most humble and austere life His work, however, was the institution of free pri- mary schools under the auspices of the church and in his efforts to perfect this system of education he started the order of the Christian Brothers
 While the innovation was accepted with some doubt by the authorities of the church the utility of the system was soon admit ted and its merits have since been proved by experience in every part of the world
 Today there are schools taught by the Christian brothers in almost every city of any size in this country or Europe. while teachers of the order may be found with schools successfully established in every land. The superior general of the organi- zation resides in Paris. and the order now includes more than 15,O00 teaching mem- bers.
 The BrounerS were introduced Into bne United States by Archbishop Eccleston of Baltimore in 1Si6. They have now four general divisions, with about 1000 Brothers teaching more than 3O.oOo pupils. The two miracles that were required before can onization could be authorized occurred in 1889. They were the case of boy dying at the Ruthenian college, in France, and that of Brother Nethelmus. who was unable to walk from spinal disease, at the home of his order, La Maison Neuve. In both in- stances the sufferers are said to have been instantly cured through the intercession or the blessed de la Sale.
 A canonization is a great event in Rome, and a double canonizaton Is ceremony of special grandeur seldom seen. As the re- suit preparations are already being made for this great celebration which is to be held on May 6. As that is the date of the