The Vatican said the miracle approved for his canonization was the healing in 2016 of a young woman in Salerno, Italy, who suffered from acinetobacter baumannii meningitis with a cerebral hemorrhage from a high-flow AVM rupture with acute hydrocephalus.. It was there she began distributing food, clothing, and other necessities to poor families, often begging for items that people needed. Blessed Charles de Foucauld was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858. Undaunted, he read about St. John of God, who founded the Brothers Hospitallers to care for the sick and wounded, and it was in that congregation where he found his lifes calling. Father Solanus was barely ordained to the priesthood, mainly because he found the seminary studies to be very difficult. The accident occurred Nov. 30, 2016, the eve of the centenary of Blessed Charless death. It was there he became the prior of the congregations new presence, and he cared for the wounded war victims in a military hospital south of Hanoi. Beatified: 21 June 1925 by Pope Pius XI. Considering St John of Shanghai reposed in the late 1960s and was canonized less then 30 years after his repose, his canonization was exceedingly short by Orthodox standards. The United States of America doesn't have a rich tradition of saints compared to other countries. // -->