This page needs to be proofread.
134
POPULAR DEVOTION
great efforts to obtain his canonization, and it appears that Pope Julius II was prepared to grant the petition, when the death of the King postponed the proceedings, which were never resumed. The sentiment of the nation, however, has ever regarded King Henry VI of Windsor as a saint, and compilers of our more recent martyrologies have given him a place among the eminent servants of God."
