I am not a candidate for canonisation just now; but repair past neglect and appease my injured shade in the way you wot of.

Thierry honours Thomas a Becket more than all Canonisations and worshippers do, because he does see where the man's true greatness lay, and you don't.

Hoche's canonisation, for he is a prominent saint in the Republican calendar, was due not so much to what he did as to what he did not do.

Ah! monk, that canonisation costs a frightful sum.

So they will publish to-day the Landgravine's canonisation, and translate her to the new church prepared for her.

'Canonisation.'

Conrad was of course a prime means of Elizabeth's canonisation, and, as Dietrich and his own 'Letter to Pope Gregory the Ninth' show, collected, and pressed on the notice of the Archbishop of Maintz, the miraculous statements necessary for that honour.

But he died two years before the actual publication of her canonisation.

Then follow four chapters, headed severally Section 9. 'Of the solemn canonisation of the Blessed Elizabeth.' Secion 10.

BEATIFICATION, religious honour allowed by the pope to certain who are not so eminent in sainthood as to entitle them to canonisation.

CANONISATION, in the Romish Church, is the solemn declaration by the Pope that a servant of God, renowned for his virtue and for miracles he has wrought, is to be publicly venerated by the whole Church, termed Saint, and honoured by a special festival.

A preparatory stage is beatification, and the beatification and canonisation of a saint are promoted by a long, tedious, and costly process, much resembling a suit at law.

CASTALIA, a fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses; named after a nymph, who drowned herself in it to escape Apollo. CASTANET, bishop of Albi; procured the canonisation of St. Louis (1256-1317).

LADISLAUS, the name of seven kings of Hungary, of which the first (1077-1095) received canonisation for his zeal on behalf of Christianity.

On his canonisation, a century after, the chapter resolved to remove his body to a shrine in the cathedral, but their purpose was hindered on account of a rain which lasted 40 days from the 15th July; hence the popular notion that if it rained that day it would be followed by rain for 40 days after.