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Catherine (Kateri) Tekakwitha was born in what is now New York State in 1656. Of her eagerness to emulate the saints, her biographer, Rev. John J. Wynne. S. J. says: "She applied the lash and the pointed metal cincture to her body regularly; she even branded herself with hot iron and walked barefoot in the snows of winter; when she began to sleep in brambles her strength gave out and her secret was discovered." She died in 1680. Proceedings for her beatification were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931, to the great joy of 2,200 Catholic Indians living near her tomb, which bears an inscription in Iroquois: "The Fairest Flower that ever bloomed among true men." Architect-Priest. In River Forest, Chicago suburb, the girls of Rosary College prayed, meditated, never spoke above a whisper for three days last fortnight. Then on Founder's Day they did honor to Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, founder of the Dominican Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary, whose nuns conduct the College in a $2,000,000 building. The celebration was intended quietly to launch the saintly cause of Father Mazzuchelli. a naturalized U. S. citizen and able architect, who built the Most Holy Rosary's first home, dotted the Midwest with 50 churches, died in 1864. Slovene Missionary. A contemporary of Father Mazzuchelli was Bishop Frederic Baraga (1797-1868), born in Slovenia, first Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette, Mich. Bishop Baraga evangelized the Chippewa Indians. Promoted by Yugoslavian and U. S. Catholics, his cause received impetus last week when a Vice Postulator, Rev. Ethelbert Harrington, O. F. M. of Calumet, Mich., took charge of it.
*As related by George Seldes in The Vatican: Yesterday—Today—Tomorrow. Since 1914, divulging the secrets of conclaves has been prohibited under pain of excommunication.