Many years ago I met Fr. Conrad Harkins OFM. Conrad was a friar of Holy Name Province (my province before the recent merger of the United States Franciscan OFM provinces and taught at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. When he learned I was from the south, he was eager to share that was the postulator for the five Franciscans that were martyred in 1597 near modern-day Eulonia, Georgia. The postulator is the person assigned to begin the cause of sainthood. They are responsible for gathering evidence and presenting a case to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican to initiate the process of beatification and canonization.