THE WATER OF LOURDES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 74, 26 September 1874, Page 14

THE WATER OF LOURDES.

MiHACTTLotrs Cube of a Boston Lady. " CouTJHßirs," one of the American Pilgrims, thus writes to the- ' Catholic Keview,' under date of June 2, of the miraculous cure of an American lady by immersion in the waters of LoUdes :—: — Yesterday Mrs E. L. Baker, of New Bedford, Mass, (formerly of of Boston), was itistantly cured of a malady that the Boston doctors- 1 had given up as incurable. She was carried by two men from the rail, road cars to her carriage, and from her carriage to her room, at thehotel, on last Saturday ; on Sunday morning to the miraculous waters, and when the two gentlemen who had watched outside to carry her to her carriage presented themselves at the bath-room doors, she joyously thanked them, saying she was able to walk with any of them, and off she skipped making vigorous use of her new found feet. On being introduced to her this evening, in reply to my question how it happened, she smilingly replied that she did not know, but that she she placed her feet in the water, and asked her siater-in-hiw, who wa» present, whether she had them in it or not. One, two, three, or lour minutes had passed, when she felt she had been cured. Her husband told me that he expected, before coming, that she would be cured, but then stated that the same would have happened to a, believer in any other creed. Be is a Protestant, she a Catholic. I only mention this as Mrs Baker is from our own country, which fact makes it more interesting to one and all of us.