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This thread gets curiouser and curiouser. There is an Edmonton musician, whom I happen to know, now living in Europe, named Wendy MacNeil. One of her songs reviews the life of Edith Piaf---I think that is right. I love Wendy's music --her lyrics are nothign short of mystical and she blew me away because she seemed so young and well just young. The saints I have known hahahah --I really do have to rent that movie when I am a little less busy.

There was a Sister Theresa Neuman of Bavaria, - don't know whether she was canonized, but she was born on Good Friday and passed on on Easter. For years, every Friday evening, she would bleed profusely from the proverbial places of Jesus' wounds, and experience a vision (re-vision) of the events leading up to Jesus crucifixion. She ate no food, except twice daily ( I think) of the 'host' or thin wafer. Her ability to eat nothing else came about subsequent to her intense prayers for someone who was very sick in their throat. Her story is one of the many marvels in Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiograohy of a Yogi. The author himself deserves to be canonized! His body did not desicate, deteriorate or smell for 20 days after his departure, after which it was put under a bronze casket. He departed immediately after speaking at a banquet in California, March 7, 1952.
Yogananda's book exists online, and can be read there! (I always buy my copies from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers).
http://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/