Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 8, 1909. Passing of St. Mary Helen MacKillop

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 8, 1909. Passing of St. Mary Helen...: 

Sunday, August 8, 1909. Passing of St. Mary Helen MacKillop.

The first native Australian saint, St. Mary Helen MacKillop,  the co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, died in North Sydney, Australia,

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, April 18, 1909. St. Joan d'Arc beatified.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, April 18, 1909. St. Joan d'Arc beatified.:  

Sunday, April 18, 1909. St. Joan d'Arc beatified.

 St. Joan d'Arc was beatified by Pope Pius X before a crowed of 30,000 in St. Peter's Square.

Drawing of St. Joan d'Arc made during her lifetime.  

A patron saint of France who lived from 1412 to 1431 before being executed, her canonization would follow in May, 1920.

Remarkably, an example of her signature exists.