CURES BY THE KNOCK CHAPEL MORTAR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 393, 22 October 1880, Page 17

CURES BY THE KNOCK CHAPEL MORTAR.

Michael Doyle, his wife, and four small children, occupy four apartments in the first story of the third tenement in the row of threestorey brick houses in North Sixth street, near Third street, Williamsburgh. Their only son. the second eldest child, 4 years of age, is ( [looked upon by the neighbours as a child greatly favouied, for, upon W 'm, they say, the mortal of the chapel at Knock, County Mayo, Ire- ,» ad, has worked a miraculous cure. The cure effected in the case of this child was mentioned at the gathering of the professors and doc- < tors in the Long Island College Hospital on Friday last, after the examination of the girl, Delia Gallagher, an accountof whose recovery of the power of speech has been given. One of the professors, in explaining how, in the case of Miss Gallagher, the paralysis of the vocal chords passed away, gave it as his opinion that she so concentrated the powers of her brain when the possibility of a cure presented itself threugh the medium of a supposed miraculous power, that it overcame the inability which existed in the vocal organs. He added, " If, however, I should see a cure, such as it is said has been effected in the case of this boy, I know that the brain in that case would not perform the cure, and never can in cases where it is necessary to build up and create. A cure in such a case, by means such as the mortar from the chapel of Knock, would seem to me to be miracu- » ous." The alleged cure in the case of the boy was the healing of a large sore at the ankle and heel of the right foot. The little fellow had suffered from this sore for over two years. In that time he underwent a number of operations in St. John's Hospital, Lexington avenue, and in St. Mary's Hospital, Thirty-Fourth street, without relief. Physicians of Brooklyn and Greenpoint who visited the child, declared that they could not cure him. So much had the child suffered that the sight of a physician made him fly in terror to some hiding place. Yesterday morning a reporter of The Svn visited the boy and talked with his mother. " Two months ago," she said, " a lady whose sister visited the chapel at Knock and had some of the mortar, gave a small particle of it to me. 1 put it into a bottle containing Eorne Easter water. This was on a Monday. Tuesday morning I poured some of the water into my land and rubbed it over the sore. I was then, as I always had been, praying and offering up novenas. I continued bathing the sore with the water every morning until Saturday. That morning when I took Michael up in my arms to bathe bis ankle I could find no sore. Where it had been there was only a slight scar, such as you see now on the ankle. I cried with joy and gave adoration to God, who had looked with compassion on my poor child, and thanks to His Blessed Mother, through whom such great power was given to a little piece of mortar. "Oh 1 blessed be her holy name !"' the poor woman ejaculated, bursting into tears. — 2V. Y. Sioi.

Rev. Thomas Grace, Rector of St. Joseph's Church, Marysville, Cal., in a letter to the Monitor of San Francisco, relates the following remarkable cure of a child by means of the cement from Knock. He says: — "I send you the following facts, for which I can vouch, regarding the miraculous cure of a child in our vicinity, and which I am sure you will publish for the honour of the Blessed Virgin. There is a family living near Wheatland named McGrath, consisting of father, mother, and two children, a boy, and a little girl named Katie, aged six years. The latter child was, about three weeks ago, at the point of death, given up by doctors, her parents, and numerous neighbours. [The doctors in attendance whose names are given by the editor of the Monitor, are considered among the best in the State, after exhausting all the resources of their skill, they declared that the case was hopeless, and that the child's death might be expected any moment.] Her limbs were shrivelled up so as to be unable to support her wasted body ; she was consumed by a fever which could not be checked ; her lungs were declared to be gone, and the child was held in her mother's arms awaiting the moment of death. In the meantime the father procured some of the cement from the chapel of Knock, Ireland, pounded it to dust, gave a few grains in water to the child, and immediately the fever left her. This was Saturday evening. Early next Monday morning, to the astonishment of all, the child said : " Mother I feel well ; I must get up to-day." The mother said no — it was impossible that she could walk ; but the child insisted that she was well. Accordingly she was dressed, and has walked about from that day to this, perfectly mired.