A MIRACULOUS CURE THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF PIUS IX.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 267, 14 June 1878, Page 19

A MIRACULOUS CURE THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF PIUS IX.

The following relation of a miraculous event which occurred lately in the environs of Lyons has awakened much interest. The family of Thiolliere is distinguished for works of charity, and for devotion to the august person of Pius IX. The father of the family relates the fact only, as he says, in t order to show his most heartfelt gratitude to him whom they loved so much ; to make his memory more generally cherished, to encourage the afflicted to invoke him, and to hasten the lour of his triumph. "My daughter, Stephanie," he says, " suffered for more than two years the most intense pains, caused by an exostotis on her right toe. The extreme sufferings which she undeiwcnt decided us to have our skilful physician and esteemed family friend remove the protuberance of the bone. Two days after this painful operation we remarked the manifestation of a nervous crisis which continued under different forms, with a few intermissions from the 17th of January to the 19th of February, the organs of nutrition ceased during this time their natural functions, and her stomach became so weak as to be incapable of receiving more than a very small quantity of food. Very soon a fistulous ulcer appeared in the wound. Our good physician and his confreres exhausted all tlie resources of their skill in order to give relief to the dear patient. The best remedies served only to increase the sufferings of our beloved daughter, who became so weak by the ISth of February that she could not take the least nourishment. On the 18th of February we stopped all remedies and resolved to have recourse to Him who is the Master oi life and death. We began on that day a novena in order to obtain from God, through the intercession of Pius IX., whose deposition was fixed for the 18th of February, the recovery or*onr dear sufferer. On the evening of that day we applied to the limb some lint that had been used to dry up the wounds of the Holy Father's leg. On the following morning, February the 19th, we made a second application to the wound itself, and immediately the pains that had lasted day and night for more than rive weeks disappeared, and on the same evening the foot was so far healed that it could bear little blows without suffering, Although her stomach had been so weak that she could not swallow a spoonful of sweetened water, she was able next day to take her usual full meals. On the three following days of the novena she recovered very much, and regained her strength very fast. On the Saturday following she walked around the gardens, and on Sunday attended Mass. To-day, Monday the 25th, she is engaged in her usual ocpupations, and is in better health, we believe, than she has ever been before. To-morrow we will finish our novena by a Mass of thanksgiving for the cure, which we attribute to the intercession of our beloved Father Pius IX. — CamiUe Thiolliere, Saint Chamond, Monday, 25th of February, 1878." — Aye Maria,