AMERICAN SAINTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 399, 3 December 1880, Page 11

AMERICAN SAINTS.

The only saint who was a native of America was Santa Rosa de Lima, born 1580, died 1617. after having spent the most of her time in th« Third Older of St. Dominic. Her feast is celebrated on the 30th «t this month (August), when there will be a grand High Mass in th« Cathedral. Her feast will be observed in South America as a strict holiday.

The following canoniseal and beatified saints were natives of Europe, but ended their holy lives on this continent : —

St. Turibius, born 1538 in Spain, and died on March 23, 1606, as Archbishop of Lima. He wrought many wonders — he even raised the dead. He was canonised by Benedict XIII., in 1726.

St. Francis Solnnus was born in the diocese of l'6rdova, Spain, and died July 14, 1613, as a member of the Franciscan Order, having exercised the arduous duties of a missionary among the Indians. He was canonised on the same day as St. Turibius. The Blessed Peter Claver, a member of the Society of Jesus, was born in the sixteenth century, in Spain, and worked mostly during his life among the negroes of South America. He died on Bth September, 1654, at Carthagena. Pope Pius IX numbered him among the blessed on July 16, 1850. Blessed Mary of the Incarnation was born in 1550, at Touri, France, and died as superior of the Ureuline Convent of Quebec, on August 20, 1672. The great Bousset called her the " St. Teresa of the New World." She was beatified by Pius IX. in 1876.— Southern Crost.

Some months ago we published the case of a gentleman having been radically cured of an obstinate nasal catarrh by simply chewing some green twigs of the Evcalyptvs or blue gum tree. In the Cape Argus of the 17th instant we find the following from a correspondent at Tulbagh ;—"; — " Not very long ago a friend of mine was complaining of a severe cold and hoarseness. I told him to chew some blue gum leaves, flnd in one hour he came hack to me and said he was nearlywell. I may say it has been tried with children also, by stamping the leaves fine and using the juice thus extracted, aud in every instance has, I believe, proved efficacious, even in very severe affections of the chest. A more simple — though nauseus — cure for cold I cannot well imagine." — Port Beaufort Advocate.

Young Flood, i-on of the Bonanza king, was out on a spree in San Francisco with a clerk of hi? father's bank. The clerk, though his salary was small, would not allow himself to be outdone by Flood in the lavish exjif nditure of money ; and the latter, when he got sober reasoned that hip companion wan a defaulter. An investigation confirmed the theory. The clerk had stolen 4000 dollars from the bank.