1. Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.

2. To introduce canonised solicitors into the Supreme Court of the universe is to disrupt this system.

3. Both men were secular mystics who chose to canonise their own tastes.

4. He will also canonise the country's first native-born saint.

5. But the fact that the Church was slow to canonise this remarkable man suggests that to begin with it did not accept his version of events.