(SUPPLEMENT _to Butler's Lives of the Saints_--SADLIERS' EDITION.)
St. John Joseph of the Cross was canonized on Trinity Sunday, May
26th, 1839. His biography was written by the reverend postulator who
conducted the process of his canonization, from authentic documents in
his possession, and published at Rome in 1838, in a work
entitled--_Compendio della Vita di Giangiuseppe della Croce_. The
following account of the life of this eminent saint is compiled from
the English translation of the above work, and thought worthy of being
incorporated in this edition of the "Lives of the Saints."