NO SPECIAL MIRACLES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 100, 3 June 1914, Page 7

NO SPECIAL MIRACLES.

PILGRIMS AT LOURDES.

EXPRESSIONS OF JOY,

• ■ "Times" and "Sydney Sun" Services. (Received June 3, 8 a.m.) • PARIS* June 2. ) • is Crowded with pilgrims. No ■* special miracles have been worked in connection with the Procession of the Sacrament, but the expression on every lace of joy transcending all was plain. . A priest is present who, until he visited the shrine in 1912, was paralysed in koth legs. [Lourdes is one of the chief places «f Catholic pilgrimage. Its fame dates from 1858, when the Virgin Mary is reported to have appeared to a girl of 13. ■ The famous spring rising from the apot i 6 credited with* miraculous powers, ■ and a church was built in 1899 for the • accommodation of pilgrims of whom •bout 500,000 visit the place annually.]