ANOTHER MIRACLE AT LOURDES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 184, 6 October 1876, Page 8

ANOTHER MIRACLE AT LOURDES.

4 1 The Paris • Univers ' publishes the following letter from its correspondent at Lourdes : — LotrRDES, July 3. " I have just witnessed a wonder which I hasten to communicxte to you. Many other miracles have occurred during the last two days, but I have said nothing about them, not being able to obtain reliable information concerning them. The following one I can testify to, and it was witnessed by many persons. Madeleine Lansereau, born at MontreuiJ, Canton of Vouille, Diocese of Poictiers, and for the last thirty years a resident of that city, where she has charge of the clothing of the poor of the parish of St. Radegonde, has, for the last nineteen years, had her hip broken and dislocated, with a shortening and contortion of the left limb. After being confined to her bed a long time, she was enxbled to walk with the aid of two crutches for fourteen years, and for the last five years she walked with one crutch and what is called a crochette. She came with the Poicters' Pilgrims, with the intention, no doubt, that numerous witnesses might behold her re- 4

covery ; she was radically cured at 7.45, at the moment that Mgr. the Nuncio, delegated to crown the Blessed Virgin, was saying the Pater Foster in the Mass he was celebrating in the Grotto. She told us that when she first went into the spring she did not experience the slightest impression ; then, all of a sudden, she felt a very strong interior emotion which she could not describe. " But," she adds, "I am cured," and she came out of the spring ; and, indeed, she walked, as I can testify, as if nothing had ever been the matter with her. " Where are your crutches ? " some one asked her. "Ah ! " said she, " I don't known where they are." It would be impossible to describe her feeling, her joy, her gratitude. " How did you spend last night ? " 'she was again asked. " Well," she replied, with simplicity, " I spent it praying in the grotto, where I went to Holy Communion at one o'clock. I prayed to St. Radagonde, to St. Joseph, but especially to the Blessed Virgin, and now I am healed." None of her [companions from Poictiers, who were also her neighbors, could believe their eyes. "Is it reallyj you, Madame ? " they said to her, and they Bhed tears of joy and of surprise. Mgr. the Bishop of Poictiers coming up at this moment said to her : " Madeleine, give thanks to the Blessed Virgin ; lam going to say Mass for this intention."