The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-25
va, adorned with heavy chain and other

vas adorned with heavy chain and other
ornaments of tie same metal. This ANA
zon seemed, for the nonce, to have assum-
ed the lead il the deveticnai exercises of
her ueighbors
These, when the priest first held Up the
sacred phial with it's ciotted contents, were
quiet and reverential; uttered 10 Iow tenes.
but audible where We sat. "IIoly Gennaro!
Save, protect Us, Bless the city of Naples
and keep it from plaques and earthquakes
and all other lila. Do this miracle, SO we
may zee that thy power AMI thy favor are
still with Us. Blessed San Gennaro, pray
for ne, and so on.
After each installment Of prayer there
was an interval of some ten minutes; then
the applications recommended, patiently
enough for an hour or moro, during which
the still refractory Blood was, from time to
time, displayed. Then, gradually, the tone
become querulous, and suppIication chang
ed to remonstrance. "How long, o holy
man Of Godi how long! Art thou resolved
to weary cot our patience? Come quickly!
Hasten to show thy. power!'' then usually
dropping back into the refrain, blessed
San Gennaro, pray for u.s."
When nearly two hours had elasped,. the
patience of this Amazonian leader evident
ly failed. 1t was sultry day toward the
end Of May, the crowd was denselg packed
and sew drops CT perspiraiiun standing on
her swarthy forehead.
''Ssu Gennaro," she exclaimed, care you
going to keep Us here, sweating in this &C
cursed crowd, all day long? Who's to at.
tend to that little shop Of mine, | wonder
while. Pm gone? Do you want it to be en-.
tered and robbed You know can't afford
to be away from it all this time" Then,
as if the til ought crossed her that she bad
gone little too far, "Blessed saint! Holy
Gennaro! Pr y for u.s.
Half an hour more elapsed, and still, as
the venerated relic was he'd on high before
the congregation, the obdurate blood
remained unlionefed At the sight, our
dame of the filyer chain and rings, unable
longer to stand such treatment from her
carnonizing ancestor, broke fourth Point
ing her long, lank finger ut the silver gilt
bust of the saint (Which had been brought
from his chapel and set On a pedestal near
us), "Faccia gala ~ she cried. yellow
face ;! It's past BEARING Have you no
mercy' Hurry up! Be about it / Come
set that blood flowing in Gods name, at
once and let.us depart in peace !"
Her face all afame aud the nervous agita-
ton of Der whole person. as she rose to
her fee. and tossed her arms excitedly,
attested the vehement reality of her
emotion. Had been inclined to laugh,
which / was not, | think any such
exhibition of levity might have endangered
my life, at the hands of that exasperated
multitude.
jerpation that the priest, stepped to the
front,-this time with cgibplacent smile
lighted up his face,-showirg the miracle
wrought, and the blood flowing freely in
the tube.
Then there went Up from the assembled
thousands such wild shout Of cxultation
as one hears only in southern chimes and
there only when fear and expecta ton,
wound mp to highest pitch ard endured for
hours, burst forth ia triumphant congratu-
latiuns at last.
While all this was passing. the priest
who ofioiated hadyery politely brought to
us, for examir ,ion, the vessel containing
the blood /; affording us satisfactory
evidence that it pas at first coagulated and
that it had lique6ed at the close.