MIRACULOUS CONVERSIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 266, 7 June 1878, Page 21

MIRACULOUS CONVERSIONS.

CoNVEBSIoifS in consequence of the singular cures Wrought by the intercession of our Lady of Lourdes ai'e recorded in the following incresting letter to the Avo Maria from Very llev. Father Edward bonn, Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Cross : Rev. Dear Father, — You published some time ago a miraculous cure from among the countless wonders of which the blessed Grotto of Lourdes is almost the daily witness ; but your pious readers are seldom made aware cf the wonderful results which sometimes follow those wonders. Here is an example : Maria Jaspierre, one of the three great viimculers of our Lady of Lourdes, in 187(5, resided in Rheims, but her family lived herein Pans. While passing from Rheims to Lourdes, she stopped with her parents and brothers and sisters, who were all stupefied at the madness of such a long journey, undertaken in the condition in which she was, for she was literally unable to stir, I might say, even to speak. Her family had lost their faith, and therefore blamed the more freely and loudly the imprudence of her step. One of her brothers, particularly, Avho was in the employ of a railway company, seeing the condition of his dying sister as she was carried to the station, swore in the height of his anger that he would denounce to the free press how the priests in their superstition had caused the death of his own sister. o "But yet," said the sick lady, in. a voice scarcely audible, " but yet, should I be cured !" "Oh ! then," replied the angry brother,." I will believe all !" me same declaration was made in various forms by several members of the family. A little while afterwards a telegram, soon followed by a letter, brought the astonishing news of the cure and complete recovery of strength and vigor by Maria Jaspierre ; and when she ,rctumcd to tne station here the miracnlee found all the family waiting for her at << C ?r tj no lon S er murmuring and blaspheming, but believing. AYe keep our promise," they said, holding her in turn in their arms ; "we all went to confession last night, and now we all go to receive Holy Communion with yon." ■^? P Cu could describe the touching, the impressive ceremony of Tt } 7 Mass . at st - Kocll > celebrated by the venerable pastor himself, and at which those unbelievers of yesterday, now converted by the living miracle standing in their midst, received Holy Communion with a faith and gratitude perfectly unspeakable. In tho course of 1877, Maria, who had solicited her cure only for the conversion of hor own family, with a firm resolution to conscorate hersjlt afterwards to God, gladly accomplished the second part ot ner.prograrmnc and entered the novitiate of the Daughters of St, Vincent de Paul. Maria's sister joined the Little Sisters of the Assumption, and the brother, the blasphemer, who had said, " I will believe nil," actually becauiu a Trappibt.