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Correspondence ol the Free Press.
LETTERS FROM EUROPE.
no. LIN.

tcrstics Of the christian cyinton and ntcll
gcnco Of Europe. But what is Mariazcll
and its pilgrimage? gave you some ac.
count of the holy house Of Lorctto, its i'm.
age Of the Virgin scu,pured by st. Luke, it.
crowds Of worshpcrs and its costly gifts; and
of the Madonna della u,Jacdil, and its dingy
portrait of the same queen Of the Catholic
heaven. iaintnd hJ, ti,e ,.e.,t1le apostle
approached through portico three miles
long at Bologna llariazel is a similar oh.
jcct oil alteration in the heart Of Austria.
! Away down among the mountains of Syria.
in the sharp and angular businesses of the
Styrian Alps, some 700 years ago tradition
says, II solitary and devoted priest built
himself Il cell, where he mrht minister his
sacred Offices to the rude mountaneers and
Ignorant peasants of the valleys OF that wild
region. He found IN the fields little
image Of the Virgin with her Divine
infant carved in wood, all as black as
ebony. Consecrated according to the rites
of his religion and very sacred aud holy, he
placed it in his cell Tor ! .n devotion
and those Of his more ignorant parish1ners.
In process OF time it wrought miracles upon
those who came there to worship, and rapid
ly the fame ofMarmzel (NIary-in-the-
was spread throughout Germany, and all
CLASSES Of the faithful thronged to her rustic
temple; and noble and royal persons Wed
with each other in the honors they paid to
it, till now the finest church in all Stvria
embraces within It's walls. beneath its sacred
arches. the little stone chapel which royal
gratitude for a miraculous cure and royal
devotion built over the original cell It's
still the scene Of many Il miracle and votiv
gltts and offerings OF immense value from.
imperial, royal and noble pcrsonuacs and
others, have been poured out in rich profu-
sion at the shrine of the BLACK VIRGIN" D."
and still load its treasury. y place and i'm
age 50 sacred have been the resort of multi
tudes Of pilgrims all along for hundreds of
years. Now, between May and September an
nually, soma - to 100 different companies of
pilgrims. amounting some years, it is said,
to 10000 resort to hlariaz1ll from various
narts Of Austri, There aro o,I, , r,,v
houses oOo resident inhabitants in
dreary and wild wilderness. | did not get
any very distinct idea OF the order OF the pill
grimages. It is somehow regulated by the
government. So that nll n,o, not 90 nj once
These nil,rins in tb,ir t,,,, ,Ji,ob -, tbo
rock and enter the church in pairs, male and
female together. and on their knees, upon
the floor shuttle along ''with the sun"
around the little old chapel which contains
the sacred image, MARY y-in-thc-cell.
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Il ears ago when the two great pilgrimages
from Dratz ana vienna usually came there
together 1t Is SAID some lighting between
'''os' iNai 'ouies Vi saints dNers'heo the
scenes I'LL the government directed the
vienna piisfims to come on the I'd OF July,
anu '''oSo from ura.z On the I'm OF August
u prevent the soahdaious scenes winch dis
s'"oo' '"0 '"'''' io'"i''5 ""en 'hey met
NJ, ,"'''' l. 'o"' v VI 'V 'i''''S from ien''a'
",'' P'o''ss'0''s ino'' III otS"D'=ea coiuinhs
VI ",'S' III u''"',ih''''S neaoeo oy men Dear
ins '"''''''' VI '''9 ''os'' N' men arc o''ss-
:" ~ p0'''''' '"i'S''"I'n pro"u s'r"" ha's,
anu 'iie women III 'hef pest APPAREL white
''"I" V"P' '''u ''''S' III 'ncir usual cos'ume'
anu 'i'c music 10 "iiieh they march Is now
'o"'o S'iH9 anu s''t''lhg heIouy' ana now
some more powerful and stirring harmony,
that in unity and variety forms one swelling
strain to which these tramping bands keep
time IN Their march over hill and dale
Inc So''r''s"S oil austria nave always been
"n'ons 'i' ilos' @e".ous oe'o'ees Oh inc snr'no
o' Ni"'i"@ci'' anu nave '''' .'vio INT must
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