The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

A ROMAN CATHOLIC • MIRACLE.'

[From C dignerres MeliMiref of the 30th of December.)
I. tee already bees stated, on the authority of a
Lyon paper, that an alleged miracle recital, trek place in
th. church of Saturnin, canton and arrondissement of Apt,
department of the Voucher, consisting in the flowing of
blood from a picture r•pretenting t►e descent of Jesas
Christ from the cross. The Pourerr puhli.hes a letter, dated
the 24th, from the sub-prefect of Apt, id Grave, en the sat-
jeer, 117 which he makes the fothiwieg vcreordiaery state.
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About the middle of the month he learned that the po-
pulation of the district ware greatly occupied by the trate-
meat that a girl of Salutes, named Rosette Tawnier, long
uoted for her piety, bad, while segued is prayer lc the
chapelof Sr. Efahareis, martyr and Aeclibishop of Toulouse,
seen, touched, and kneed blood which flowed from the wounds
in Christ's body, in the painting placed above the al'ar, re•
presenting the deerent from the eroes. it was addetethat
supernatural feet' bad been repeated on three follow-
lag days. Shealy after the sub-pretest waived through
the mayor the copy of innate' drawn up by the lieutenant
of gedurmerie, in which that functionary states that leaving
me the 16th, et the invitation of the curd, gone to the church,
he, having with the cure get on • table clues to the picture
distinctly saw ' blood flow from the wound by the side, and
those of two hands and the kft foot.' The blood at the
right side conusted, says the lii stenaat's report, of 'e!glet
drops in the form of pearls, of the else of a little pea; en
the right hand' it formed a Hai of six centimetres is length,
ending in a drop; at the left hand and the left loot the
blood' wee lea abendant, bet still sufficient to trees a line
from the two points of three or four centimetres, also termi-
lianas in a drop.' Six or seven hundred pathos were
present at the time anl saw ell this. The ewe then asked
Dr. Clement, who was present, to wipe the blood away with
• piece of white lines. This wee done, and II marks of blood
remained on the kW O. Afterwards the flowing of the Wood
recommenced, but was allowed to coagulate on the painting.
That 'co doubt might exit as to the reality of the
prodigy,' the lieutenant caused the upper part of the altar
and the painting to be removed, and ascertained that ' it wee
abooluuly impossible that the least thing could have pens.
trued the Interior of the altar or behind the painting; more-
over, the wall behind the painting was covered with a cement
perfectly fatal in all parts.' la consequence of this mar-
vellous status, at the sub prefect went on the 17th to Bt.
Setwain. The and wag absent; bat, la company with the
mayor, Dr. Clement, sad Y. sy, advocate, he visited what
he calls ' the nairesuleas *nen.' These gentlemen atat-d
to him that they bad whinnied the oozing of the blood, as
stated by the lieutenant of gendarmerie, and caused him
to remark the coagulated blood on the 'stinting. At
this the sub-prefect mays be felt prifound
Hv thee went to visit the young girl; he found that
apes lived in an kin kept by a female cousin. ' She
wee in a state of stiffens, ; her appearance was sickly ;
ha eyes rolled mysteriously in their mach developed orbit,
and see mud to lose themselves in a cloud ; their expression
was lull of melancholy, her body eyraordinarily thin;
her attitude I xcessively modest;radest; humility was piloted in all
her movement., and reproduced in all her words: she es.
pm eel hereon with great i ropriety, and spoke French
ma. °areal, thanmeet outlasted persons. To all the
nab prefeet's question, the damsel replied with great
' Clad,' she said, ' bed effected this miracle for the
oseverisoa of einsen, and He lad specially ehoeea St. Satur-
nia, became, fora years ago, this locality was the witness of
a pest weadel. Her cousdues,' she added, ' bad beta cut-
=earawaisteed, se also that of a priest; bat she had
elided reparatioa from tied.' On the 20tb, the sub-
prefect, scessepaniort by M. Ouillibert, 'lnge d'lnstruetion,
sad At Jaques, subnitete of the Procures, of the Reliable ,
luau* lit. Saturant; the Archbishop of Aviation had
arrived on the previous evening. After paying his respects to
the prelate, the cab prefect went, an sompeny with Dr. C.
Bernard, an minas( physician of Apt, towards the church.
As they were ascending the hill on which it Untested, they
hearo the bell Irmo : ' this,' says the functions's, ' war the
signal of the commencement of the manifestation of the
prodigy.' Us was much vexed at it, as be was desirous of
being in the chapel ' before the appearance of the oozing
of the blood.' but they hurried on. A number of pera:c,
were assembled around the church. The curl met nim ;
he anoouaced that the ocs ng of the bleed had commenced,
.t that he c Ala not open the church until the arrival of
:he Archbishop. However, the sub-prefeet retired, and,
at lay, the cure let him in; he took with his Drs. Bernard
and Clement. The high altar was lighted with was can
dee ; at one corner was Rosette Towner, kneeling in
prayer, with her hands crowed, and her head leaning on the
altar. She appeared completely absorbed in de• Awn. ' I
ascended the table of the altar,' aye the sub-prefect, ' as
by Dr. Clement. 1 examined the wound by the
light of a was candle. I ascertained that from those of the
right hard, the two feet, and heart blood oozed. The drop
.it blood which was on the right hand visibly Increased; it
appeared to me like a drop el blood each as anises on the end
of the finger un being pricked by a sharp instrument when
the lower part is lightly pressed. It war at the moment at
which the drop of blood of the right baud was about to fall
or flow that I wiped it three several times with a piece of
linen. The first two operations gave two very red stain of
blood. In the third lbs stain was clearer. Alter this opera.
non the wound remained windy cry. I 410 wiped see erel
times the two wounds on the feet, and I remarked that the
drops were clearer, and the easing lees sensible. I dad the
WWI to the 'wound on the rigat side • there were there a
doses drops of blood, which nearly famed the design of a
heat. That of the middle pros/Bud the same phenomenon
sei that of the right hand, sad it was of a darkish colour.
Those that were around resembled, cm the contrary, the
drupe of the feet. 1 took away the drop of the middle,
and one or two on the right. At this moment the arch.
bishop entered the chapel. 1 accordingly lett untouched
the other drops of the wound on the side, and Untamed
tram wiping the wooed on tie left hand, from which
no blood Lad oozed, 1 desceoded from the altar. The
archbishop, followed by a numerous body of the clergy,
knelt at the loot of the altar, and after a short prefer
examined the drops of blood which 1 had left at the
wound of the heart, sad he wiped them with a piece of
linen. This piths of linen and mine were covered In all
with about 30 drops of blood ; and they were exhibited ft
the clarion. yof the population, who filled the chetah. The
clergy and a body of young girls sang hymns; and we waited
th expec'ution of a new wain, but none came. The girl
Rosette Tamisier, who still remained absorbed in prayer, we.
sated ethers' timer if the blood would flow again. A, brit
time she did not answer; a woad, she and she did not
know ; a third, that she did not believe it would. After this
last reply, about an hour alter the arrival of the archbishop,
the cure (hL (head) canoed the picture to be displaced, and
*oilmen turned It round. We examined it with a good
deal of care, bat I saw no particular mark. Tie canvas was
perfectly dry; a thick coating of pitch covered all the bark,
sad it was placed against a very thick wall This was all
the part I had in the event. The archbishop then proceeded
to eel, brats masa, and I went away to draw up an account
of what 1 had seen. I then visited Rosette latareier, whom
I found suffering and greatly discouraged. She announced
to me Blatant believed the prodigy would be recewed. And
in fact, I have since received a report from the Mayor of St.
Saturnia, announcing that at nine in the morning of
Saturday, the 21st, there was again an abundant coring of
blood."

In • postscript to this letter, the suteprefect states that a
gendarme tumid Briol, who after his retirement from the
chapel had Wen placed to p the crowd from approach-
ing the painting too closely, bad remarked two drops of blood
ooze from the right side that he bad wiped them two or
three times with his pocket handkerchief, and that four or
en stains still remained on it. He said that be had not at tint
gives say soma% of this, hatiess be feared that his pocky
handkerchief would be taken from him, and he wished to

mod it to his mother.
The Cormier de Lyon states that this blood which is said
to have baud from the wounds in the side t f our Saviour,
as represented is the painting is the church of St. Saturnia,
DM boom wiped by two medical men, who h..ve decl►red
that its chemical compositioa ezeetly corresponds with that
of Dumas blood.

DOG TRAINING IN MONICH.—One afternoon J.
told me that she heard a tremendous noise, the shouta and
streams of a asp, sad the terrine howling and yelling of a
dog. Out darted the gentleman from the studio, and oat
rushed J , and there, in the large adjoining held, through
the mud—for there had beta a heavy fall of snow—a man
raced along, punned by an esormous dog, the fiercest brute
imaginable ; it sprang upon him, it tore him, it shook him
by the hair of his bead, it dragged him along the ground,
the man screaming and the dog howling! Then they were
up again, and careering round and round the field, man and
dog. lake wild beasts. J. was horrified beyond words, and to
.'s indescribable indignation the gentleman looked quietly
on and smiled. What could it mean ? To her it seemed a
fearful murder. Bat no ! it was only the training ef a
watch deg ; and a very frightful business it must have been,
although very grand to Vitae'', the patleman declared.
The man wee all bound up, so that the dsg could sot pistol,
injure him materially; but hie head sad face, with their
frightful bandages, suggested no other idea than that of
wooed', which made him look all the sore dreadful. These
Germ dop, thus trained, us necessary as secarity against
Hibbs,: many people keep them ; there are two at the
studio, but I have noticed nothing very ferocious about them.
He.. this mode of training dogs is act at all sassoal,although
the trade I should think not particularly agreeable.—
Dithases ilotastAoid N ords.