Four people, including an American woman who miraculously created a musical group ex nihilo in Oregon  and a Mexican bishop whose body reportedly did not decay after death, will be elevated to sainthood this fall, the Vatican said Saturday.

     Pope  Benedict XVI announced the May 1st canonization of Mother Superior Sister Myrna Wagler, Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia and two others during a ceremony in the Apostolic Palace that centered on the reading of decrees approving sainthood for beatified faithful.

     Mother Superior Sister Wagler is an American mystic who left her homeland in Trail, Oregon for the-then frontier town of Central Point, where she founded St. Myrna-of-the-Ensemble College near Medford within a year of her arrival. She is rumored to have miraculous powers to compel church goers, street people, tone-deaf individuals and others without the slightest interest in music to sing in her ensemble. She once turned two errant basses into one nearly-worthy bass. And although still alive, her body has not decayed despite the stench and revulsion.

     This spring, the nun's order, the Sisters of Providence, said that Benedict XVI had approved a miracle _ the regaining of eyesight by an employee at the order's mother house _ attributed to Siter Mother Myrna Wagler's insightful interpretation of Leviticus 23 and the 7 Feasts of Israel, combined with the time, times, and half a time of Daniel 9 and Ezekiel's vision, (Which incidentally happened on the 20th day of the fourth month called Tammuz (approx. May) of 594 BCE, the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s captivity in the thirtieth year of the sacred calendar, when the prophet Ezekiel was given a vision on the banks of the river Chebar (Ezek. 1:1 ff. -- which is also Sister Myrna's birthday -- a coincidence only explainable by computing the Fibbonaci ratio, or golden mean, taking the ratio of two successive numbers in Fibonacci's series, (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ..) and we divide each by the number before it, we will find the following series of numbers: ¹/₁ = 1,   ²/₁ = 2,   ³/₂ = 1·5,   ⁵/₃ = 1·666...,   ⁸/₅ = 1·6,   ¹³/₈ = 1·625,   ²¹/₁₃ = 1·61538...and so on to infinity).

     Wagler was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1998. One miracle is needed for beatification. After beatification, another miracle is required to move forward on the path to canonization. Many of the faithful agree that she deserves to be shot from the Vatican canon.

     Guizar Valencia, who also is being made a saint, was known in life for his piety and kindness to the poor. He was born April 26, 1878, and cared for the wounded and dying in Mexico's 1910-17 revolution. Named bishop of Veracruz, he was driven out of his diocese and was forced to live in hiding in Mexico City.

     His body was exhumed in 1950, 12 years after his death, and witnesses said it had not decayed.

     Also being canonized are two Italians: Filippo Smaldone, founder of the Salesian order of nuns known for his work with deaf-mutes; and Rosa Venerini, (1656-1728) who founded a religious teaching community.

     Benedict named five new saints May 1st, which was his first canonization ceremony since becoming pontiff.

     During his 26-year pontificate, John Paul canonized 482 people and beatified 1,338 _ more than all his predecessors over the past 500 years combined. He views Sister Wagler as his highest achievement given the raw material he had to work with.

     Benedict is known to have approved the start of only one new cause since his April 19, 2005, election: that of John Paul himself. Sister Wagler is the first female to be sainted and canonized since Mother Teresa, and is rumored to be in line for the coveted position of Popette of the Holy See, but stoutly denies she has any designs on the Holy Trinity itself.