The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-28

help. She went into the house of q Catholic
lady, and there FIVE or six persons saw the sad
condition Of the poor little child.
immediately" wrote this good lady, al
thought of Our Lady of Lourdes but how was
I to speak Of it to q Protestant
"' Would you like u.s. said to her, TO give
the child some water which have here, and
which will refresh himT
Z" oh yes,' cried she, / would like it; and
Immediately, il you pleased
81 gave him q small teaspoonful, which be
seemed to relish then another, and he opened
his eyes; visible change took place in him.
& The aunt won't home, taking some Of the
| water, with which she moistened his lips from
time to time. Wonderful prodigy! the sore
visibly disappeared; the child began again to
take his ordinary food, which he had refused
| for some days. Next day he was cured-so
| completely cured that his little mouth, entirely
| round and red, showed not the slightest trace
of the fearful sore of the evening previous.
"Filled with astonishment and joy, the Pro
testant mother took the child everywhere,
showing him to all who would look, and saying
to all who would hear that it was only tho
water which was given him that had cured
him, since she had used nothing olse5 and the
doctor had not even come to $50 him.
"'Let US hope adds her Catholic benefso-
tress, that the Blessed Virgin will finish her
work, and that sooner or later she will lead this
poor child to the true faith, healing his soul as
she healed his body!"
The fifth rosebud was also of 1874 year as
fertile in prodigies of grace and mercy as in
terrible manifestations of divine justice
kings and nations.
1t is again an aunt, but this time o good
Catholic and very pious amt, who gives
the accoun. of double miracle performed on
her nephew by the bletsed water from the
grotto of Lourdes.
"The dear child" wrote she to the superior
of tie missionaries at the pilgrimage, is tea
years old was suddenly seized with an cffusion
of water the brain ar acute Inflammation.
He was reduced to such All extremity that on
Saturday, June II, the two doctors who were
attending him had formally declared that all
over with him, and that, unless by a
miracle, his cure was impossible.
"On Saturday morning, Juno 12, after he had
made his first communion as a Viaticum, and
received the last Sacraments, whilst his father
and mother and myself we're waiting to see
him breathe his last, felt inward inspira-
ton to invoke Our Lady of Lourdes. 1 then
said to her in my heart this short and simple
prayer o Mary! conceived without sin, Our
Lady OF Lourdes, since a miracle Is required,
will you not perform it Cure this child, be-
seech YOU Then, taking flask of the miracu-
loCs water which one Of my relatives had given
me, made our dear little one swallow some
drops of it. l rubbed with it, three different
times, his fearfully swollen face each time the
swelling visibly grew lees, and soon entirely
From that time an extraordinary
improvement took place he had very quiet
night. On Monday morning, to the great as
constituent of the physicians, who could be-
lieve neither their ey es nor ears the child asked
for something to eat, and did actually cat with
out feeling the slightest inconvenience.
However, the cure was not complete; in |
the course Of the disease the child had lost his
sight, SO that he could no longer distinguish
day from night. Encouraged by the miracle |
which we had already obtained, and fully con-
vinced that Our Lady of Lourdes would not
leave her work unfinished, l continued to rub
his eyes with the miraculous water, and on |
Tuesday morning, awakening, the dear
child cried out joyously: 1 can zee az well as
before was sick
I" He is now completely recovered"
If, after that, mothers and children do not |
love the IWmdSulate Conception, the good Virgin |
of LouI dos, 1 do not know, in truth, what more |
she can do to gain their hearts.
Ito be continued.J