REMARKABLE CURE AT LOURDES

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 692, 17 December 1909, Page 4

REMARKABLE CURE AT LOURDES

: :The last issue of'"La Colomhe," the quarterly journal of tho • Daughters of the Holy Ghost,; gives- a detailed, account of. the remark-, able;cure at Lourdes : of one/of tho Sisters, of thaf'Order; who; is attached to ,the lionise at Pontvpobl. .For' some '' tiyclvo . ■ years Sister, .Joseph .of. St. Charles" had suffered , acutely from,,severo [ulceration of the stomach.'" Her , : case .had' gradually grown worse,/and. she had become unable , to. take any nourishment except a' little milk - and a morsel.;of .toast Three times this present year she appeared 1 to be at the point of .death. Her'medical attendants declared an operation'imperative, but were not hopeful of a cure... In August last she - was sent to the Mother House at, Saint Brieuo-in Brittany. Whilst there sho asked for and received permission to join tho.diocesan pilgrimage to'Lourdes,-"which was then being'organised.' She expressed a perfect confidence an the intercession of Our Lady,. and had. a most lively: hope of restoration to- health..: Arriving at Lourdes on September 14, in spite of her exhausted state she insisted on bathing in the miraculous spring. After .'her fifth bath • nil ■sensation of pain and discomfort had disappeared; she felt -hungry," and declared that the. Blessed Virgin had entirely cured her. The directors of the pilgrimage took her to tho Bureau des Cdnstatations, where Dr. Bbis-' snrie subjected her to a long examination. He then ordered her to' return to-.:tho hotel and partake of the ordinary silpper provided. This consisted of soup, beefsteak, and fruit; and the Sister 'not only partook ! of them,' but suffered not the slightest ill effect. -On the following day sho underwent, a searching examination by ton doctors at the Bureau. At the ond of thoir inquiry they declared themsfielves satisfied: that-all symptoms of her complaint had '■";-'<' '„ -.■„-, - - •■ ', Since that.day Sister Joseph of St. Charles has followed all the ordinary exercises of hor religious life, has partaken of ordinary food with excellent appetite, and has -fort herself in every way • perfectly cured., She is anxious that tho goodness of, Our Lady of Xourdes i to hor should bo published far and wide: to the glory of God and tho honour of His Blessed Mother.—"Catholic Times," .