The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
Cardinal Mundelein
 Lauds 'sLittle Nun"
Mother Cabrini Venerated By Catholics as "BIessed'
 in Most Majestic Rites of Church

1 cago and left behind schools, hos pitals and orphanages, was venerat- ed by the Catholic faithful today as blessed"
 The justification of Mother Fran cesca Saverio Cabrini was complet- ed Sunday in one of the most ma jestic and beautiful rites of the church. It was the final step before canonization of the Italian-Ameri- can nun.
 Ge> ye Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago presided at the rites In St Peters basilica. Pope Plus late in the afternoon, went to St. Peters to venerate the relic.
 Cardinal Mundelein was the first American cardinal to pontifcate at service conferring justification.
 Those present included Peter Smith IT, of New York, the reStora- tion of whose eye sight has Seen credited t. the miraculous powers of Mother Cabrini, and Sister Fel- phina Grazioli of Seattle. Suffering from what had been diagnosed as cancer, Sister Grazioli recovered. She said Mother Cabrini had appeared to her in a vision.
 Cardinal Mundelein made 8 radio broadcasas to the United States, laud- ing Mother Cabrini and her works.
 In part the cardinal spoke as 1ol- lows:
 Many of us are still immigrants or children of immigrants. It is fitting, it is encouraging, then, that foreign-born and natural ized citizen be the first to be raised to the honorS of the altar, to become 8 national heroine 8 patron of the male as well as the devout female sex.
 Did I say heroine? In these days when we hear so much about
 heroes in the great war, war like preparations, pre-war propa- garda, we are apt to forget that peace has its heroes as well as war.
 Real Christian Heroine"
 When we contemplate this frail little woman, in the short space of twoscore years, recruiting an army of 4,000 women under the banner of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, dedicated to 8 life of pow erty and self-sacrifice fired by the enthusiasm of the crusaders of old, burning with the love of their fellow-men, crossing the seas, penetrating into unknown lands, teaching them and their children by word and example to become good Christians and law abiding citizens, befriending the poor, teaching the ignorant, washing the sick all without hope of reward or recOnpense here below-tell me. does not all this fulfill the concept of 8 noble woman?
 Can we find in our history 8 truer or finer example of the real Christian heroine than the Blessed Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini? And as I conclude this brief tribute to this saintly woman for the great army of her admirers in the United States, it is with the hope as well as the prayer that having said the last blessing over her hfeleSs remains as well as the first prayer to her in St. Peters at her justification, that her great soul may be there to welcome me when the doors of eternity opens for me and condust me into the mansions of our Heavenly Father.
 Hundreds of Waterburians heart the address. In various Catholi, churches here parishioners were ask ed to pray that Mother Cabrini's name may soon be listed with the saints.
 Rev. J. Oliver Cronan, assistan pastor of St. Margaret's church, re viewed the life of the Little Nun telling O. her courage in combating various obstacles which confronted her.