In about 2,000 years there have been slightly over 10,000 men and women

recognized as Christian saints. Less than 140 have come from the Americas. To be

fair, or at least make a plausible excuse, Christianity has only been in our

hemisphere for five hundred years. It is generally thought to be the business of

governments to provide infrastructure - water, food and education, for example,

as well as public needs such as defense, disaster recovery and trade. Usually the 

success or failure of a government is measured in terms of percentages and

money. So we might measure maglevs in terms of rail-miles, tons of cargo carried,

jobs created, or even millions of Marian pilgrims transported. Venezuela has

under-performed were we to measure the nuturing of saints. The popular San

Benito de Palermo lived in Sicily all his life. There are Dr. Jose Gregorio

Hernandez, Mother Candelario de San Jose (beatified 2008) and possibly Maria

Esperanza. Perhaps one can never have too many saints, but that is surely too few.

A mystic has said that building the Marian maglevs is a gesture of faith, hope and

charity. Historically, mathematicians and politicians who have disagreed with

saints and cardinals have rarely prospered, so we should with guidance build the

trains and supurbs and cathedrals.