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...processes. Sts. Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua were canonized within a year or two of their deaths. It was Pope Urban VIII who settled (by decrees of 1625 and 1634) the modern practice of differentiation. The process is threefold: the reputation for sanctity must be established, the heroic quality of the virtues must be shown, the working of miracles must be proven. After beatification, in order to qualify for canonization, miracles must be performed. The procedure, therefore, is in reality a lawsuit pleaded before the tribunal of the Congregation of Rites. The postulator must furnish evidence...
...says: "I had at my fingertips a wealth of material which I would not use. I knew better than the average the weaknesses of mankind, the errors; I had seen human relations at their most naked, human emotions when the bars were down and the soul peered out, heroic, cowardly or defiant. Yet I could not write of these things. I did not want to recall them. To this moment realism is easy for me, much easier than other writing. ... I turned to romance, to crime, to farce, to adventure; anything but reality...
Sylvia Townsend Warner is a competent novelist, so when she turns her hand to verse you expect some salty characterization. She does not fail you. Old Rebecca Random, heroine of these heroic couplets, lived in a picturesque, tumbledown cottage in the English village of Love Green. The cottage attracted tourists' favorable attention; Rebecca might have sold it but always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village...
Auguste Champetier de Ribes, French Minister of Pensions, spent an exciting hour at Verdun last week. Charges had been made that although millions of francs are being spent on the new monument at Fort Douaumont heroic Verdun dead are not yet properly buried. Pausing only to invite reporters to accompany him, M. Champetier de Ribes took train from Paris to quash this rumor. At Verdun he discovered that not only are thousands "improperly buried," but at least 12,500 are not buried...
...equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...