The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19

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annum for each sister employed in his school
The sisters live at the house of their order il
f1fteenth street. and go forth every morning t
the schools to spend laborious day in instruct
} ing Ignorance, returning at noon and at nigh,
TO their religious home 1t will cost DIR. Nor
rogh about eight thousand dollars to sustain
cost the city of New York eighteen Thousand
dollars. IT happened to be snowy day on
which visited this school, and no one went
home to dinner. But when dinner time came
an apparatus containing a hot dinner for the
sisters was brought round to them from their
home near by, and they all sat down together
In a nice little room to enjoy it, with the must
| cal accompaniment of twelve hundred romping
| girls.
Surely there is something admirable and imi-
table in oil this.
picture. This amazing organization, system
of organizations, is the accumulated practical
wisdom of many Thousand years but it is the
| work of imperfect human beings and partakes
of their imperfection "There is provision i'll
nature" says Goethe, to prevent trees from
growing up into the sky" Else, Commodore
Vanderbilt would own all the railroads, and we
should all turn Catholics Immediately. Every
Protestant knows, thinks he knows, pre-
| cisely what the defect is which prevents this
interesting int tree from growing up into the SKY,
| l think know. 1 think it is because there is
not sufficient provision in it for adapting its
doctrine to the advancing mind of the race.
Perhaps, however, it is the undermined mind
that is in fault.
Our Ro1san Catholic brethren, for example,
firmly believe that miracles are daily wrought
noted miracle yet performed in the United
States occurred in the city of Washington, ON
the 10th of March, 1924. Bishop England, of
Charleston, who ranked very high i'm the esti-
nation of his brethren, Investigated this mira
Gle, published an account of it, and Appended
to his narrative the afidavits of thirty seven
persons, all of whom testified to the miraculous
nature of the event.
Mrs. Ann Mattingly, widow, aged thirty-four,
residing with her brother the Mayor of WASH
ington, had been afflicted for six years with
hard and painful tumor i'll the lower part of the
left breast, which four of the leading physicians
of the city pronounced incurable, and for which
they prescribed only palliative applications and
medicines. She suffered all that woman could
suffer and live-vomitings of blood, intense
chills, pain almost insuppOrtable, most dis
tressing cough, until she was reduced to skele-
in bed, her shoulders and back We're liberated
to such degree that it was torture to her to
have her linen changed or to move in bed In
the fifth year of her illness the tidinys began to
be spread abroad in America of the wonderful
cures wrought in Europe through the prayers
of certain Prince Hohenlohe, u vcnerated
priest OF the Catholic Church; aid some of the
friends OF the afflicted lady besought her to
make known her sutferinSs to this holy man,
and beg his intcrcession in her behalf The
pastor of her church, with the consent of the
Archbishop OF Baltimore, wrote to the princely
priest,-as many Others did in all parts of the
world,-asking his prayers for this lady's re-
covery. The priest ascertained, however, that
the Prince Hohenlohe had already made known
his intentions with regard to all sick persons
out OfEurOPe who desired his prayers. He would
pray for such on the-tenth day of every month
upon all who wished to enjoy the benefit of his
intercessiOn to fulfill certain conditions. They
must have faith in the efficacy Of prayers; they |
must repent anew and deeply of their sins; they |
must form an immOvable purpose to lead III |
exemplary life; they must perform Novena, OF
nine days devotion, in honor of the Holy Name |
nf tI,avv not Il
receive the sacrement, and, finally, on the APP |
pointed day, the tenth of any month, at mne |
o'clock, they must unite in prayers with the |
prince, far away on the other side of the ocelh |
With all these conditions Mrs. Ann Mattingiy |
complied. The priest of her church, two hun
dred of her friends and fellow-Catholics, us we'll
and the archbishop of the province "graciously
promised to join i'll prayer with them on the
appointed day, 10th of March instant The
Novena was begun on the first day of March,
1924, that it might end the tenth. AS
there is Il difference of six hours between the
time Mt Washington and at the place in Germany
where the prince lived, the priest appointed
the hour of three i'll the morning for the last
solemn act of supplication, and so notified all
the families and persons concerned. At nine in
the evening before, Mrs. Mattingly, who appa-
and received absolution. AT two in the morn
ing, the priest who was in special charge of the
Novena said mass in the church, and carried
thence the sacrament to the afflicted ladys room |
where he arrived at about half past two. She
was then low and necessarily tormented
by cough, that the priest apprchensive
she would die before she had communed. The
sacrament, however, was administered, and it
cost the lady painful effort of six minutes to
swallow it. The solemn ceremony being ended,
the priest wrapped up the sacred vessels and
implements, gave the usual blessing to the /
kneeling family Give in number, all of whom
swear to these and the following statements,)
and making his last alteration of the host
before leaving, when he heard deep sigh
issuing from the direction of the bed. He turned
and behold, "a miracle! Mrs Mattingly sat
up, stretched her arms forward, clasped her
hands, and said, i'll clear. though weak voice,
" Lord Jesus, what have done to deserve so
great u favor!" Sobs and shrieks burst from
The persons present. The priest from his
knees and fastened to the bedside She raised
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