Excerpt from The Lives of St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Francis De Girolamo, St. John Joseph of the Cross, St. Pacificus of San Severino, and St. Veronica Guiliani Whose Canonization Took Place on Trinity Sunday, May 26th, 1839: To Which Are Prefixed a Treatise of the Abbe Gerbet on the Invocation of Saints, and an Account of the Proceedings and Ceremonies Used at Their Canonization IN presenting to the American public the lives Of the five Saints, whose canonization took place in Rome, on Trinity Sunday, the 26th of May, 1839, the editor has retained the introduction pre fixed to the English edition, with some additions. An account of the' process gone through on such occasions, cannot fail to be interesting to Catholics, and calculated to dispel the prejudices in which others have been educated, in regard to every thing connected with Christian Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.