APPARITION IN A CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 February 1908, Page 9

APPARITION IN A CHURCH.

Tho inhabitants of, Brin, a village near Nancv,' and aij/tho, whoje surrpunding district; aro discussing' 'a; supposed; miracle witnessed, by a couple of-hundred people' in Brin phurch. : Accordjug to' thojpolice; commissary • sent details, when . tho. Sacrament was. exhibited qftcr ;high Mass during the Benediction, tho villago .priest, as lie' place<l 1 tho'.mpnstrancp.;. : (the 'glass : faced shrine) containing tlio wafer on the altar, saw; tho living iniagp of'.'a young man' reseinbling tho Saviour reflected in.the glass of the monstranco.;- Supposing himself tho-Victim of hallucination ho -called, bis' clerk, who likowiso saw 1 the' imago. .'^Thbreupon.. he, , called ; f the Mayor, who was in" church,; and ho says xhat lie distinctly, saw; th'e, imago. / .'Thinking .it /liad, for'.a 1 trick,been stuck to tho glass of the monstrance; tho Mayor jnade investigation.- ' . - - •■ - .* -. -'-'.' The priest, removed the wafer ; and tha. glass, but the imago still .-remained, and witnesswl, apparently tho living ima'f'e .in the hollow- of tho monstrance. The police commissary supip'osedjt might be a rcllectionirpm thostained glass, which, -howo'ver, contamed no figures. The village curoj a worthy, easy-going man, 'who,, has been; 17 years .in' tho ':-villago and cities not,. ' apparently care much - whether; ; his parishionbrs.g'p:to church or not, shrugs his shoulders and,says that.ho cannot explain:tho apparition, but is not prepared to accopt it as a miracle, though astonishing. , Thousands now visit' the church, believing that it, is a miraculous manifestation. Some a 'trick, but. most . regard it, as ; a cjuite natural but unoxplained phenomenon. ;