Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-28
Another Miracle.

The following extraordinary narrative is pub
lished in the Malta Ordine of May 26:--
We are informed that at Civita Vccchia an
extraordinary and interesting event has taken
riHos in the Church of the Minor Conventuasts.
Our informant, n respectable ecclesiastic and n
person most worthy of credit, writes thnt he was
an eye witness of the following.
On the 2Oth of April 1854 ,at about four in the
afternoon, several children being assembled by the
parish priest for their first communion, five of
them after having made the holy confession repair
ed to the chapel OF st. Antonio di Padova, to re-
turn thanks On the right side of the statue of
the saint was suspended u painting on canvass,
about three palms in height,representing the fig
ure of the most holy Virgin, with the eyes uplif-
ted to heaven, and the hands joined in the act of
prayer Two Of The children placed themselves
before it to pray and while their eyes were fixed
upon the holy figure they exclaimed in alarm =
"lhe Madonna is looking at us, and moves her
eyes" The other three ran up, and, wonderful
II state, believed the same. So lively were their
sensations and the internal connections that one of
them Frustrated himself on his face TO the ground,
two ran crying and trembling to inform the pa
IRISH priest, the others to make their parents ac-
quainted with the circumstance. A pious woman
who was praying in the chapel. FASTENED to the
spot at the cry of the children. and she also saw
the prodigy. Immediately the chapel was filled
wall, and placed on the altar candles were lighted
prayers were loudly vocferated,nnd the holy yir-
gin repeated the prodigy, and moved her divine
eyes, although not all present had the consolation
to observe the movement. This was the com
mencmcnt of the affecting prodigy. The most
holy mother continues to move her eyes, some
times towards one sometimes towards another,
and sometimes towards many together and still
continues 10 do so up to this day, (lSth May.)
Iha mas nnt,tp 1 tbn h,,l,s
is TO look up and look dOwn,but very often she
moves them horizontally or directs them towards
the bystnnders. His ominence the Cardinal Bish-
op Lambruschni (now ofilustrious memory or
dered that eanonical process should be common
eed, and in consequence of which, on the Goth of
the same month of April, the ecclesiastical au-
thoritcs assembled some persons skilled in the art
of painting aud in the anatomy of the holy pic
tme. The prodigy is certified by an immense
number of persons of every class and of every
age The chapel has become a most devout sane
tnary. The most rev. chapter of the cathedral,
with the sufiragan bishop at its head went in pro
oesson to worship the holy picture, and was fol
lowed by the chapter of the neighborng Tolfa;
the pious secular coniraternities, and the reg-
Gus bodies of the reverend Dominican, Capuehin,
and Doctrnary fathers of Ciyita Necchia, and an
immense course of devotees crowd during the day
and until late at night to the holy place, to i'm
plore for grace. In this manner the mother of
our Lord exhibits her mercy, and shows herself
yisibly propitious by means of this holy picture
to the people of God.