The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-06


the child should pray upon his knees and to touch
q chsplet which was held out to it. 1t was not
always robed In the same vestments. Sometimes
the Virgin bore the infant Jesus in her arms (;
sometimes she held her hands outstretched and
dropping In the attitude OF the Immaculate Con-
ception. Great numbers OF people came into Mrs.
Wallets rooms during those six days.
THE APPARIrIoN WAS SEEN BY MANY.
and especially by children.
A boy named Castan, one OF the piayfelows Of
Armand Wallet, always saw the vision at the same
time as he did.
Blanche Nicot saw the apparition in presence Of
the Able de Ia Perche Vicar Of Ste. Marie, though
he himself saw SOthing.
Marie vassel also saw the apparition.
The testimony OF these children was sifted and
found to agree IN every detail and particular.
Among grown up persons Nine. Lemercier saw
the Virgin twice. She Is grave, respectable per-
son. nfty-three years old First she saw the appa-
rtrion clearly and then more dimly.
Upon the seventh day Armand Wallet saw the
apparitiOn once more, and for the last time
These events caused vast deal of conversation
in the neighborhOod, but were not the subject Of
any hostile commentaries
Meantime another child named Alfred Fontes Of
Brazilian parentage, fell seriously Ill. His disease
was liver complaint, complicated BY ulcers in the
stomach and intestines. His family reside at No.
Place des Batignoles and ON the 25th OF last
February he was placed under the care Of DR..
Crestey, who resides at No. AZ Rue LemercIer.
Alfred F0ntes grew worse and worse every day
and Dr. Crestey called in DR.. Moutard- Martin, ply
sycian Of the Hospital Beaujon, for consultation.
DIR. M0utard-Marttn, after q careful examina-
nicted with an internal tumor of the gravest
character, and, for the next fortnight the malady
Of Alfred Fontes resisted all the resources OF SCI
ence. He was seized with frequent vomiting; he
could digest no n0urshment, either solid or fluid.
All hope Of saving his life had been abandoned.
This was the state OF his case the 18th OF last
March. The Able Bourgeat, curate OF Ste. Marie,
had found 1t impossible to administer the commu-
MON in eTtren,ts to the boy, account OF his con-
tinual vomiting He called to see Alfred FOntes,
however, on sunday, the 18th OF March; and, on
leaving him, was inwardy moved to tell his
mother that her child would be suddenly cured"
The Able Bourgeat declares that In so saying he
obeyed an irresistible impulse, which obliged him
to pronounce those words. He was thinking OF the
miraculous cure OF Armand Wallet when he spoke.
On the next day, March II, at q quarter past
eleven O'Clock in the morning, Nine. Fontes en-
deavored to administer some food to her son, but
his stomach refused 1t as usual. Then he said to
his mother, who was bending over him with a
piteous face, "If the holy Virgin wills 1t she can
cure me as she did little Wallet" (Here we come
upon the faith which makes whole.) His mother
then went into the next room to fetch something
for him, and some moments afterwards her son
called her back, crying out, ~ am cured; have
seen the Holy Virgin"
Tho vision ammo rod IN ,ho child IN how ra.
manned Tor several minutes, but Nine. Fontes as
serts that not one minute had passed before the
cure was Effected.
THE VISION SEEN BY ALFRED FoNTEs
was that OF the Immaculate Virgin, dressed in
garments OF blue and white respondent with light.
He had distinguished her features but had not been
able to see her eyes,
When Alfred Fontes called his mother the vision
had vanished, and never more returned. But the
child was completely healed. The enormous swell
ing in mis- stomach had tanaously disappeared
without any evacuation. His wasted limbs, worn
by his illness to little more than skin and bone,
recovered their size and healthy coors. He had
neither pain nor sickness; his health was perfectly
restored. He rose and made q hearty meal. DR..
Crestey was then enabled to pronounce that Alfred
Fontes was quite cured, and he has had no return
OF his disorder.
into all the details Of the OF Alfred Fontes by
these words:-
"These facts were witnessed by me on the
day OF their occurrence, and arirm upon my soul
and conscience (Sur mon anne et cOnScience) that
they are the result OF a miracle (Qu'Hs sont le
resultdt dun nairdcle none Of the gifts of science
being able to furnish an explanation of Them"
Here are two miraculous cures resting upon the
evidence of numerous living people, whose con-
current testimony would decide case at law be-
fore any tribunal In the world. Moreover, these
things did not happen at out-oi the way village,
in distant province. They occurred at BATH
gnolles, suburb Of Paris.
THE MIRACLES OF BATIGNoLLEs
have been the cause OF q scribblers' war. The
comic papers adhere to the opinion Of M. Renan,
that unless q miracle Is performed before the In
sttute OF France 1t Is miracle at all. M. Lock-
roy says that young Wallet saw something in o
looking glass resembling "a lady or q
BELL" and puts the fact OF the boys
cure. which cannot be denied, into very
funny language. But M. Louis veuillot, editor OF
the Unirers sent NJ Antonin Rondelet, a gentle
man Of unimpeachable veracty and character, to
make a thorough investigation into the alleged
miraculous cures at Batignolles, with firm inten-
ton OF exposing any attempt at humbug with the
keenest pen in France.
What NJ Rondelet saw at Batignolles was this =
He saw, in the first place, great number OF the
neghbors OF the Wallet family, and went from
shop to shop inquiring after them. Batignolles is
a suburb Of Paris, much Inhabited by ladies who
have married without the assistance OF q clergy
man or q magistrate, and when they have business
incnations they and the objects of their choice
are very apt to turn to shopkeeping In their ma
ture years. They are
LIVELY FROGS OF THE AVERAGE SORT,
and when NJ. Rondeet began to talk to them Of
the Holy Virgin he was amazed at the hesitation,
embarrassment and the visible suspicion with
which they responded to his questions. garcon,
free frog In q bachelor state began by giving
an evasive answer "He did not know" that free
bachelor frog; not hel What should he know Of
the Virgin Mary since she did not appear at the
"Closerie des Lilacs ?" "He had heard some
thing; he did not remember exactly what.u He
had, probably, never listened to a communication
in ha w hOiA Of ifa ~, In,