Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-07
Iaff n Miracle,


TIE FASTING GIRL or BoIs D'HAEE-A WAFER
DAILY AND TWO sPooEFULs or WATER
wEEKLY-No sLKEP FOR THREE YEARS.
For several months past the German news
papers have been discussing the case of I,onisa
Lstrsu, the fasting girl Of La Plaia A cor
respondent Of the LJudou Times writing from
Jena gives TIE following Information about
ATT e meeting OF German naturaHsls and
physic ans recently held in BresIau Pror VIZ
0 Clat tehEeIed speech on subjec which has
MAZE no small sensation in many parts Of Ger
u any some three years ago a book appe sred
enuLlt q Louise Lstesu, ss Vie ses Fcxt5se+ et
Of sms,es;n NOt much notice was a. hrst
t-ken or 1t. This year. however, a psmpIlst
was published ty Prof. Rolling, OF the Acsie-
10y IN munster, entitled ssIouiss Iatean dia
otgmstisirte voIi Bols d'Hsine" The work has
TtAcht O Its pin edition, and 50 900 copies have
pass into circulation. liz states that the y0unS
woman to whom IL refers was born in R1Is ~
MAJ 9, IN the diocese OF Journals, wslloon dis
rict OF Belgium. In childhood she sufTsred
much fr, Ia Hines, and showed extTaoTdinarv
Z Al IN the performance OF her religious dutIes
IN 1866 she became subject TO ecstssies. OF
NhieA W shall Afterwards speak, AM two wears
later, on the 2Ist OF 4 priI 1853 on A Fridsv
Just at the tine when she had cDuolefat hsr
n0yittsts in the third Order IF st Fr.Dcis 0F
Assist, stigmata-thRt Is 10 saw marks 70 ore-
ssDting the wounds of Christ-rIade their an
Pearence On her body. They were received bv
her Just similar a. signs were by ST Fraoci.
anu otner SAINTS, They frst appeared as red
places on the skin, out OF which afterward
bIoO1 issued. On the first Friday there wera
oleedlngs (Blutumge on her left side the M
tF9 5 fFlI.y there were similar bleefings
from her rect and from her hands. EyentualIy
on the 18th of September, spots appeared an
her brow which one could recogDize "a a.
cluedly similar TO those crown Of thOrns would
produce. She had become subject to ecstasiss
generally occurring on FTidays. and these still
cont nue. While under thess inf Isncps she
loses all sensibity for the outer world. IL is
stated that she cannot even feel electric shocks.
She has extraordinary visions More recently
me has found sleep and food necessary TO ex-
iSttnce, and We are informed that fer the last
three years she has only eaten wafer daily and
drunk two sPOOnfGls of water weekly. During
ali this time she has never slept.
such are the facts which have been gravelv
rtCGrded in the pam Jhist and the fact ID at il il
written by "a prof ;" who declares hi as-lf
unable 10 explain the phenomena, has brought
tie story uIder The notice Of class Of persons
WbO are not likely 70 attach Importance to con-
temporary miracles. Prot. Rolling dill not
feel satisfied with the success of his pamphlet
He wrote to Prof. Nirchow as to a great physi-
OlOg'st, TO ask him his o "iniOn about this very
remarkable phenOmeTt. In his letter he re-
marked that the Catt & ApOlOgetics lay down
the principle that phenomenon may only thus
be treated az q miracle wheHscence has proved
unable to explain it according 70 fixed incon-
trovertible laws. The Germauia, a leading
paper OF the extreme Roman Catholic party is
20 convinced that miracle hiss occurred chat Il
also appeals to Prof Nirchow. 1t asks him ,-hv
lie does not make the phenomena the subject OF
careful study and tells him he would find an
occupation in the examination of this case as
likely 10 promote the interests Of =cieuce a. any
thing he could 60 in Sweden OF NOrwav-refer-
ring, no doubt, 10 his presence al an arsh,po-
logical congress at Stockholm.
Prot. YIrchOw treats the case az one OF a class
familiar to him. He does not think il would be
OF 20 much service to science as the Gsrmania
believes TO visit Bots d'Hane. He has been
sixteen OF seventeen years physician 20 tina de-
paTtment for sick prisoners at Berlin, AID
knows very many kinds of stimulation. On.
case has come under his notice of Csasing TO
take ncurishment in which the whole supply Of
food WAS consumed in an extraordinary NJ an
Usr- lit has given him. he says, 1.-the greatest
trouble, even perfectly org aniZed az his hospital
IL, TO trace O1t the tricks and shifts 90 which
such persons as LOuiss Lateau resort" SILL,
despite all the annoyance likely 20 result, be
would not object 20 receive the girl into his es-
t2blisbment, and would look carefully into her
case, which he admits has become OF serious
importance, now that the cOlp0rtGgs Is still car
rying thousands OF pamphlets on the subject
INTO every village of the Rhine, and a great part
OF the country - in a ferment about Il.
The liberal papers speak OF the woman with
disgust, while the u,tramontane papers fully
believe In the miraculous fasting aud bleeding
OF Ionic. ln connection with this discussion
the following advertisement has appeared in
the Breslau mOrgen Zeitung
Crown up girls who wish 10 be stigm4tizad Or
TO be Instructed in the art of stigmatizing 9TH
ets, may COUtd3ntially Communicate with Mrs
Francisco SchleckeT, midwife, % Corn street.
EumsEe Treatment. Cheap prices. Absolute
secrecy guaranteed.
The advertiser Is said to be Roman Catholic