First Starbucks saint?

VATICAN CITY -- According to Reuters News Agency, on Sunday April 27 Pope John Paul beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process discovering the frothy coffee drink cappuccino.

Marco d'Aviano cleared the last step before sainthood, as the pope recognized the friar's miraculous work including curing a nun who had been bedridden for 13 years. With a vast Ottoman Turk army beating a path to Vienna in 1683, d'Aviano was sent by the then-pope to unite the outnumbered Christian troops, spurring them to victory. As the Turks fled, legend has it they left behind sacks of coffee, which the Christians found too bitter, so they sweetened it with honey and milk. The drink, now supped by millions around the world, was called cappuccino after the Capuchin order of monks to which d'Aviano belonged.

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