Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-05-28
From The London Weekly RerieU.
rHENANrEs MIRACLES.


sis,ing the evidence on which they are related.
Leaving our readers 10 reconcile the seeming
paradox included in the above announcement,
we shall relate what has taken place in connex-
ion with the extraordinary facts referred to
merely promising, thai our information is ehiei'
" gathered from TWO pamphlets, Which have
recently been published on this subject, by two
persons, not merely Of unGoubteo veracity, but
both Of them men Of the mos, enlightened views,
and one Of them the author OF several works
which display vast erudilion. The names OF
the writer's ID whom are indebted tor our
inform alton are, NJ Edmond Richer, and NJ.
de Tollenare, both Of them we believe residing
at Nan,es-a city remarkable for being greatly
IL advance Of many other parts OF France, and
which has an Academy, and publishes several
scientific and literary Journals.
Madame Saint Amour. who 4, still quiteyoung,
ard DOS esscs considerable personal attractions,
is the wife Of superior officer in the French ar
my, and was not long ago converted 10 the doc
trines of the owrdenborgians, by one NJ Bar
nsrd native Of Names, who is lately dead. II
appears tina, unit lately Madame Saint Amour
though exhibiting in her belief the result OF an
ardent and enth usias,ic temperament, and hith-
er,o, Notwithstanding her long cherished desire
20 be gifted with powers OF doing good 10 her
othe, holy acts, been ACCUSTOMED To confess the
lot fiicacy Of thai power with which she had
sometimes been induced To suppose herself en-.
dowed for curing The sick, pronrsncing oracles,
Sc. Al last however, size SET about 10 pray,
nigh, aud day, for that miraculous gift which
had be, promised by the Saviour 10 his fai hful
di,ciples-that OF curing The sick; and there can
be little doubt that persons Of anarden,empera.
ment, and under The fun influence OF new re-
HgI0ds DeIlei, can long continue 10 put mp pi ay-
ers like those now referred o, wilhou AT / myth
believing that :hev hs,e oeen granted. From
day 10 day the religious impressions OF Ma
dame Saint AMOUR grew stronger, and finally,
at the ia,ler end Of last spring, she was fully
convinced that, through her intervention two
children had been suddenly cured OF Danger.
Gus fever under which ney were suffrriog.-
This was enough. She de,e mioed that her
gift should not be hidden in napkin; and she
shortly al erwards proceeded TO Nantes; end
ing To make that city the scene Of her miracu
luus operations, on account OF its having been
the birth place # the person by whose means
she had been converted to the regenerated doc
trines Of the church 10 which she Belonged
She arrived a, Names in the latter parl OF last
year, where the news soon spread, that q lady
had I. ken up her residence IN he city, who
possessed he miraculous gif, Of curing all HUI
man malaties merely by PRAYING for, looking
upon, or touching the parties afflicted by I'll, m,
and the III cts upon the pc ople OF Nantes were
prodig Gus. The street in which she resided
was h!ied>irom morning ill night by persons
seeking to b. cured by her: many remained all
nigh, al ner door; wherever she went, her pa h
was hese' by devotees, who sough, merely (as
of od) 20 touch the hem Of her Carmen; and
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throughout The city was, that the Virgin her
seIfwas once more descended among hem. In
hree days from her arrival at Names, III, news
had spread to every part of the surrounding
coun ry;and numbers Of pei sons were hourly ar
rising from Yours, Saumur, De 2ochfori, Aus
gers, Rcntes, and other towns; and shortly az
terwJrds, the Main ct Loire. La Veniree, Mo
rihan, aud IN fact, every town and village in he
department Of Sa Srine lnferieure, had sent
forth It's sick 10 seek cure at her hands. In
order tn escape from the multitude, which now
laid siege to her apartments, she WAS obliged
tn accept an Off red ASYLUM il ano' her par, Of
the town. But there The crowd soon followed
her. In word, the whole city was, as it were,
up in arms: the artizans suspended their daily
la5ors-a"d thar was no talk or thought of any
thing, from the ,xchauge 10 he ACADEMY
from the most refined drawing rooms TO The
most humble houses of pnblic receplion-but
he wonderful cures Of Madame Saint Amour.
Hitherto, il will be said, we have related
nothing miraculous, for cruelty is the natural
and almost necessary offspring OF ignorance,
and that which is strange and inexplicable is
sure TO excite canvassing and curiosity. But
what we have to relate is of a diffe rrnt kind,
and as il Iesu,s from the personal experience
Of one OF the writers we have named above, and
owes all its value and curiosity to the veraci,y
OF the party relating it, we shall use, as near as
possible, the narraror's own words-which are
confirmed in their general tendency by the tes-
timony of the other writer to whom we have
also aIlLded-M Edmond Richer. The fol.
lowing is wha, NJ, Tollenafe relates Of the all
lodged cures performed by Madame Saint A.
mour:
"I do not pretend" he says, "to have witnessed mi.
racles performed by Madame Saint Amour; but have
certainly witnessed cures performed by her, least
such obvious and instantaneous relief from an actual
state Of suffering, the like of which before came
under my observation. The examination of these ef
fects does not within the province of reason;