Notes and Comments Rory Conley Causes of Saints In a ceremony on June 5, 2016, two saints were canonized: Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary (Jan Papczyński, 1631–1701), a Polish Piarist priest who founded the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception; and Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad of Sweden (1870–1957), who converted from Lutheranism, founded a branch of the Bridgettine Sisters, and worked to save Jewish Holocaust victims. On September 4, 2016, Teresa of Kolkata (Calcutta; born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, 1910–97) will be canonized. She founded the Missionaries of Charity. On October 16, 2016, seven saints will be canonized: Solomon (baptized Guillaume Nicolas Louis) Leclercq (1745–92), French brother of the Christian Schools, martyred by the Revolutionary government; Lodovico Pavoni (1784–1849), a priest of Brescia who founded the Congregation of the Sons of Mary Immaculate to work for the formation of youth; Alfonso Maria Fusco (1839–1910), a priest who founded the Sisters of St. John the Baptist to work with adolescents, especially the poor and abandoned; José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (1840–1914), an Argentinian priest and member of the Third Order of the Dominicans who labored among the poor and sick, and died of leprosy; Manuel González García (1877–1940), bishop of Palencia and founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Eucharistic Sisters of Nazareth, of the Disciples of Saint John, and of the Children of Reparation; Elizabeth of the Most Holy Trinity (born Elizabeth Catez, 1880–1906), French Discalced Carmelite, mystic, and spiritual writer; and José Luis Sánchez del Rio (1913–28), a Cristero who was executed by the Mexican government for refusing to renounce the Catholic faith. Americana The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament have announced the sale of two properties. The forty-four acre estate in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, that contains its moth-erhouse and the shrine honoring its founder, St. Katharine Drexel; and the 2220-acre Belmead property near Richmond, Virginia, that once housed two schools for African American students. The sales were necessitated by various factors. The ten buildings at Belmead were no longer used, and the order had difficulty staffing its facilities. Its membership has declined from more than 600 to just over 100 and most of its current members are now retired. The retired sisters will be moved to other residences. The order’s archives will be taken over by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and the remains of St. Katharine will be moved to the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, near the altar honoring her. The proceeds from the sales will be used to support the retired sisters; to combat racism; and to serve the most vulnerable peoples of the United States, Haiti, and Jamaica. [End Page 661] Seminar/Workshop The Folger Shakespeare Institute’s 2016–17 scholarly programs include two topics of potential interest to historians of Catholicism. The fall-semester seminar “Convent Culture,” directed by Nancy Bradley Warren of Texas A&M University, will explore writings by, for, and about early-modern women religious in continental Europe and the Americas. It will meet on Friday afternoons from September 30 to December 9, 2016. The fall symposium on “Early Modern Theatre and Conversion,” meeting November 17–19, 2016, will investigate how dramatists treated religious conversion. The deadline for admission and grants-in-aid for both programs is September 6. For application information, email institute@folger.edu. For more information, visit http://www.folger.edu/2016-2017-institute-scholarly-programs. Conferences On June 23–24, 2016, an international conference was held in the ancient refectory of the Dominican convent of S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Order of Preachers. The introductory lecture was given by John W. O’Malley, followed by Viliam Stefan Dóci on “I domenicani e la Chiesa: sollicitudo pro salute animarum—sollicitudo pro Ecclesa”; Gert Melville on “Domenico e il Conciiio lateranense IV”; Roberto Lambertini on “L’ecclesiologia domenicana nella disputa con il clero secolare”; Pierantonio Piatti on “Il contributo dei domenicani ai Concili lionese I e lionese II”; Florent Cygler on “I domenicani e il Concilio di Vienne”; Josep Ignasi Saranyana Closa on...