Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-03-29
X. NO '. URBANA. OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH % 1871.

dred years honored as miraculous. Or
7 the voyage 4 tempest arose, and WheI
sailors and passengers had given them
selves up for lost, the merchant expos
ed his picture. All bowed down befor,
il, and called on Mary, the Star Of th,
Sea- to save them. Their prayers were
hCRrd-thc sea became calm, and in 6
few days they reached the destined
port.
"The owner ON reaching Rome wa:
taken sick, and died. On his death-bed
he requested that the painting should
be placed in the Church of ST. Mathew
on the Esquliue Hill, for public venera.
/ ton, Here it remained for three hun
I dred years, the Virgin sanctifying the
( spot by the most remarkable miracles.
From all parts tlocked pilgrims to heI
shrine, the historians and poets of those
| ages giving celebrity to the wonders
which were witnessed.
During the wars which deYa5ted
France and Italy in the last century,
the Virgin shrine III st. Mathews
Church was levelled, and the miracu-
lous picture was lost. After more than
sixty years, in 1866 a young member Of
the congregation Of the Holy Redeemer
found it in q small chapel ofSanta Maria
in Posterula.
"An 'invito sacra' was published i'll
the name of Plus X, appointing the
18th day of April, 1868, as one of thanks
giving. On that day the picture was
carried in public procession through ihe
streets of Rome, and placed on the high
altar Of the Church Of st. Alphonsus de
Liguori.
"As," said our pious informant, ''the
Blessed Virgin signalled her coming to
Rome by miracles; SO on her second en-
try she was pleased, through her Son,
to celebrate 1t by wonders. Two chill
dren were cured oflameness and a blind
man was restored to sight, as the process
sion passed to the church." So many
were the miracles performed that the
Pope publicly crowned the picture with
o crown Of gold. Copies were taken
from it and sent to all parts of Europe.
One hangs in the bed-chamber of the
Pope. Two were sent to America last
year-One to the Redemptorist Church
(St. james, in Baltimore, and the other
70 the Church Of the Holy Redeemer, in
Third Street.
''These copies are endowed with the
same supernatural power" said the
father. "In Baltimore a son of one of
the prominent citizens, who had been
afflicted with drOpsy, was cured after
the doctors had given him up. Here a
poor laborer, who for years was helpless
on account Of pains in his side, was
brought to the church and restored to
perfect health. Among the many con
which are attributed by the
converts themselves to this painting, is d.
that Of well known General of the Iate
war"
The original painting is only q inch
a5 in height, by Is inches in width. The !
Blessed Virgin is represented on back
ground of gliding, in bust form, and |
bears on her left arm the Infant Jesus,
1er right hand being extended. The
Infant Jesus is represented as a grown 1
child nervOusly clasping his mothers /
arms, and shows his sandal partly off, as
,hough he had hurTiedly sought refuge I
n her arms to hide from himself the
instruments of torture in the hands Of I
he angel Gabriel. Above his head are /
he written characters, ICXC., his name /.
Tesus Christ.-M z Sun. (