Gazette Of The United States

SAINT MAKING:
A ceremony unabolished in the 18th century!!!

From Rome, August 8. It appears that on the preceding Sunday, his holiness, attended by several officers of distinction, went to the church of St. Bonaventura, where he was received by the Cardinals Archinto and Brachi, and the superiors of that Convent. The Pontiff, after the celebration of mass, pronounced the decree of beatification and canonization of Father Leonardo, of Port Maurice. He went into the apartment where the monk died, and with the assistance of the Cardinals, and other officers and prelates, published the decree of beatification and canonization of Father Leonardo, with the approbation of two miracles, wrought through the intercession of this deceased saint. The reading of this instrument being finished, a marble stone, with a suitable inscription was produced—The Bishop of Cervia also presented his holiness, with the identical Crucifix, which the deceased father used to carry with him upon his missions, with a piece of carved work, intended to decorate the chamber they were in, and representing the conversion of a chief of a Corsican banditti, effected by the venerable missionary.

After this, to finish the ceremony, the pontiff went to the cell where this Saint was visited by Pope Benedict XIV. being confined with a lame leg which his power of working miracles was incapable of curing!