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Becoming a saing cost her a cool 20 mill.     http://www.msnbc.com/local/WCAU/242801.asp >>>   Drexel to become a saint PHILADELPHIA Jan. 27 — Mother Katherine Drexel has completed the final step toward sainthood and could be canonized this year. That was the word from Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua Thursday. Now, it’s up to Pope John Paul to set a date for her canonization. News 10’s Bill Baldini has the details.

			BLESSED MOTHER Katherine Drexel spent most of her 96 years spending her family fortune of over $20 million educating Indian and African American children at the turn of the century.     She also founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament who now carry on her work. Now, Mother Drexel is on the doorstep of sainthood.     “The significance was that this is a declaration of the acceptance of this miracle which is the last step before canonization,” said Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia. “There’s a great joy for me personally but also for the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament [and] for the whole Archdiocese.”     The Catholic Church used to require three miracles to become a saint, now you only need two. A miracle is an extraordinary event that cannot be explained.     When Robert Gutherman was 14-years old he had an incurable hearing problem. His full recovery was attributed as a miracle through the intercession of Mother Drexel.     “When you stop to think what a miracle is, a miracle is a hand of God reaching out to heal you, to touch you,” Gutherman said. “When a doctor tells you that two bones have been completely destroyed through an infection, and then through medical research and science those bones have been proven to be restored. Bones cannot be restored. It’s a miracle.”
	Amy Wall, seen here, is considered Mother Drexel's second miracle.		Seven-year old Amy Wall from Bucks County was born deaf. Years after her birth when all medical hope was gone, the Wall family prayed to Mother Drexel to intercede with God and cure Amy.     “It’s hard to put into words,” said John Wall, Amy’s father. “You just can’t. You know in your heart that God did grant you a miracle. Why? No idea.”     Amy can now hear and her cure ended up being the second miracle for Mother Drexel propelling her to sainthood.     The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and Cardinal Bevilacqua have spent years lobbying Rome on behalf of Mother Drexel.     “People asked me before is Blessed Katherine going to be canonized,” said Sister Ruth Catherine, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. “I said of course, absolutely. There’s no doubt in my mind that she’s going to be canonized.”     There are only three saints in the United States. If Mother Drexel were canonized she’d be the fourth. She would be the second from Philadelphia. Saint John Neuman was the first.