The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-04
The Water of the arotto of Lourdes.

BY every mail We receive letters, ant
! sometimes many in DAY, asking us "wher,
the Water of Lourdes can be obtained
Were 1t possible we would answer
s snese letters. AS it not. we ask to
refer to onr previous publication, in these
columns, that we greatly wish there was
SEINE depot, here in New York, for it's re-
ception and distribution, but there is none.
~ the permission, and even request of the
very Rer. d: Granger, C. S. c., Notre
lame, near South Bend, Indiana" Pro-
vanclal OF the Congregation of the Holy
Cross, we stated, sometime last February,
mat he had a supply, and was distributing
| It,. In the Freeman of April 5th we pub
| lished letter from him, in which he said ::
Since the publication of your article on the
water OF Lourdes, we have been literally run
down with letters, so as to require the service
not of one, but of three persons-one to answer
the letters, one to fix the vials and the other
10 forward them to their proper places. But,
our !abors have not been in vain most won
derfnl effects have been produced by the use
OF the precious water"
Our correspondents may understand, from
this, how utterly impossible it is for us to
answer letters of inquiry, aud we ask them
slndiy to excuse US, both for the past and
for the future.
AS the Very Rev. Father Granger, whose
address we have given above, has not yet
said his supply is exhausted; and as, per-
haps, out OF the great devotion of Father
Granger and the G. S. G. to our Lady I'm
maculate, he may have engagements for a
new supply, perhaps requests to him may
meet with a favorable answer.
&C. Some of our correspondents add to their
request for information as to how the
Water of Lourdes may be obtained, an in
quiry as to its "price :" In our estimation,
the difficulty lies just here. Were it to
enter into the category of things imported
n f0r lyn otokr,
Or wax-candles before they are blessed,
We would not like to become the purchaser.
But, on the other hand, our experience
shows us that whoever undertakes to sup
ply the demand will be subjected to an out
lay, In various ways, of two to five thou
ways.
1t is therefore that we have hoped that
some Religious Communities, in different
parts of the country, would, out of charity
Tor our Lady of Lourdes. and for her clients;
undertake this work. The CONGREGATION
Of the Holy Cross, South Bend, Indiana"
have alone done so, hitherto. And, CON
nected with their Convent and University,
They are engaged in building splendid
olive Church, in honor of Our Blessed
Lady Immaculate.
1t is in this way that, it has seemed 10 us,
'he embarrassments may be avoided. Those
applying for the Water of Lourdes, ac-
,ordlng to their ability, may make votive
offering for the new Church of Our Lady,
1t Notre Dame. The Religious receiving
hese will, then, have no delicacy about
'ecelving money in compensation foS their
expenses and labors. The pious Priests in
charge of the Fountain of Lourdes notify
that the Water cannot be sent by
nail. Their caution would be doubly nee
essary in this country. The pitfalls thus !
emit would, almost certainly, be broken. ,
And in sending by express, no matter how I
arefully packed, pasteboard boxes will not t
10. In New York, the experienced agents d
II the Express Companies will refuse to 9 .
eceiue glass containing fluids, unless pack =
d in arooden boxes. And, after all pre- q
autions, accidents will happen. Of the y
welve Htres, SO kindly sent US by the .
cry Rev. Father Palamorgues, some two = =
ears ago, carefully packed at the grotto, .
wo were broken, and the water lost, when {
re received them. Father Granger had a y
Oxen phials sent us, carefully packed in 7
awdust. When received, fire of the twelve i
'ere b1oken.-Freeman's Journal. =