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Updated: June 16, 2025
At Mainz Father Faber gave the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, and obtained many wonderful conversions. His fame soon reached Cologne, where Canisius, yet uncertain as to his future, was praying, studying, and exercising himself in all good works. Suddenly, it became clear to him that his vocation would be made known to him through Father Peter Faber.
The only thing that mattered was to please God, and just now this sort of work was what pleased God. Canisius kept Stanislaus at his work in the kitchen and about the house for a couple of weeks. He noted his cheerfulness, his love of prayer, his readiness to do any sort of work, and best of all, his simplicity, his entire lack of pose.
A citation of the ipsissima verba of Erasmus, or Luther, or Melanchthon, or Peter Canisius, or Louis XIV, or Robespierre, or Marat, interested my students far more than any quotation at second hand could do.
But he hesitated a moment, and said instead, "As soon as you think fit." You are a stranger to us, you know," Canisius went on, smiling a little, but pleasantly. "And before we admit men amongst us, we need to know that they have something more than a mere desire to join us.. That takes time to find out. Are you willing to stop in the college here for a while?"
Words that from the mouth of another might have returned unto him void, uttered by Canisius carried compunction into the hardest hearts.
Canisius had already written to the general thus: "Knowing as I do my poverty of intellect, my great want of aptitude, and my incapacity, I confess that I should like to run away from this place, and would rather go and beg in India than involve myself in those dangerous disputes, out of which nothing can come but perpetual disgrace to religion, and great harm to the rights of the Church.
The annals of the University abundantly testify to the greatness of the work accomplished. At the end of his six months' rectorship, Canisius gave an account of his administration, and declined the chancellorship then offered to him.
Douglas Removed from the Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Territories. Douglas's Tour Through the South. His Advanced Views on Slavery. Senate Discussion Between Brown and Douglas. Douglas's Letter to Dorr. Lincoln's Growing Prominence. Lincoln's Correspondence with Schuyler Colfax. Letter to Canisius. Letter to Pierce and Others. Douglas's "Harper's Magazine" Article.
Stanislaus answered promptly, "Of course I am." "Not as a student," said Canisius. "But as a servant?" "As anything you want," Stanislaus agreed. "Well, come with me," Canisius said, and he led the way to the kitchen. "Here's a new cook," he said to the brother in charge. "At least, he may have in him the makings of a cook. Can you give him something to do?"
And they had heard him say, another time, that at Augsburg was Peter Canisius, the Provincial of the German Jesuits. Of course they were going to follow him and bring him back. But night had come on before their inquiries and deliberations were finished. They must wait till the next day.
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