Catholic piety suggests that God sends the world the saints it needs, not merely in life but also when they are raised to the altars.
Consider St. Agnes of Prague (1211-82), canonized more than 700 years after her death, at a ceremony scheduled long in advance, on Nov. 12, 1989, in the days between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Only Providence could have arranged a new Eastern European saint precisely at that time. For good measure, Brother Albert of Kraków was canonized with her. Some 10,000 Czechs defied the tottering communists to attend the papal Mass in Rome. Soon there would be no regime to defy.
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