Show American Woman May Become Saint Story of Miracles Performed by Nun Told at Solemn Solemn Solemn Sol Sol- Rites Br r United Press Pre t CHICAGO Sept 8 At 8 At a solemn tribunal in a 1 wing of Columbus hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital with a setting o of shrouded sisters sisters sis sis- high-backed high chairs and religious ornaments secret testimony is being taken daily in anticipation of elevation elevation elevation eleva eleva- tion to sainthood of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini If Mother CabrinI is named a saint she will be American citizen to receive that honor from the Roman Roman Roman Ro Ro- Ro- Ro man Catholic church Sh She was founder of the Order of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and died in 1917 The hearing strictly secret and formal invokes all the ritual and formal procedure of the Roman Catholic Catholic Catholic Cath Cath- olic church It was WM ordered by the apostolic see Cardinal Mundelein is presiding judge TESTIMONY COSTS 1 MILLION Testimony which began In August probably will continue through September September September Sep Sep- and before belore canonization ion is completed may cost a million dollars The expense is borne by the sister sister- hood The chief requisite for sainthood is proof that Mother Cabrini performed two miracles following her death Two witnesses Sister Delfina Grazioli Grazioli Gra- Gra of Seattle Wash and little 1 Peter Peter Peter Pe Pe- ter Smith 12 of New York will wUl testily testify testify tes tes- tily to miracles by Mother Cabrini Each witness appears alone before the solemn tribunal pledging utmost secrecy Four copies of the testimony will be sent to Rome where the congregation congregation congregation con con- rites and cardinals selected by the pope will investigate it in every det detail It If the congregation cardinals cardina and pope pronounce the thc testimony authentic tic Mother Cabrini will be known as Venerable Then in a sacred rite performed in St. St Peters Peter's In Jn Rome beatification will be pronounced TELL OF MIRACLES Two more miracles must occur after alter beatification before canonization is complete Sister Delfina will testify that In 1925 after she underwent a major operation and extreme unction on had been administered Mother Cabrini appeared to her in a vision She recovered recovered recovered re re- re- re covered in a few days Peter Smith expected to testify next week will tell the tribunal that at his birth in 1921 a nurse accidentally accidentally tally washed his eyes in a solution of nitrate of silver Blindness and pneumonia pneumonia pneumonia monia followed After prayers were said asking Mother Cabrini to Intercede intercede inter inter- cede the poy's Os O's sight returned Now he is preparing for the thc priesthood NOW |