The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-07
by hind permission of the publishers D. J. Sadlier
Co. New York
ICON inued. ]

IXXIv.
SUDDEN CURE OF LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL
| THREATENED WITH LOSS OF SIGHT.
| On Sunday, the 2esh of November, 1869, tn,
Sisters Of St. Joseph, established in Etoil.
street, in Toulouse, were the happy witnesses
of the sudden cure OF one of their pupils, afte,
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes.
About year before, young J. Z. was threat.
ened with blindness; and about the middle OF
the month Of January, she was obliged to inter
ruPt her course of studies. Although treated sue
cessively by two skillfol oculists of Toulouse,
her sight had not at all improved; tho two
professional men had declared that she need
not expect to be cured. The first assured her
that she would be blind the second declared
that, the ulcers having produced as it were q
sort Of burn which had consumed an essential
part of the eye, it was impossible to repair the
harm already done. All they could hope to do
was to arrest its progress.
In the month of October, at the re-opening
Of the Glasses, the poor child asked and OBJ
tanned permission from her parents to resume
her place with her eldest sister at the boarding
school; but all she could do was to listen to
the lessons. and to scribble some exercises
which it would be impossible to read. Dis
coursged by the failure of the remedies, she
had, for moro than two months, given mp all
sorts of medical treatment, and she then grew
worse every day.
On Saturday, November Goth, she arrived
with her sister at the boarding school feeling
very sad. She bad declared to her parents that
she could no longer see, AID the distress of the
family was at its heighth. The two sisters
wept; and their companions, as we'll as their
Mistresses, were deeply touched; q Novena to
Our Lady of Lourdes was resolved on and COM
menoed that very day, and, at each exercise,
the fervor of the little flock seemed to be re-
doubled, praying to Her who has never been
invoked in vain.
The Eovena ended on Sunday, the 28th. Tie
little patient, her sister, several pupils and all
the Nuns of the House, received Communion,
with the design of doing holy violence to
Heaven. After the Holy Sacrifice, one of the
Nuns went over to the poor child to battle her
eyes with the water of Lourdes. She found
her leaning on table, weeping and trem bling
in every limb. 81 see |" cried the little girl.
After Communion, saw q strong light, and
afraid; see that light STILL" She wept,
and her whole frame trembled with emotion.
There was cry of joy through the whole
house; her sister, her teachers, her COM
panions wept as they embraced and congrstu-
ated her.
The reverend pastor of the parish, who had
'hared his little parishioner's sorrow, hastened
20 take part in the general joy, and could him.
'elf testify to the truth of this occurrence, for
The little blind girl of the evening previous
read, in his presence, from the books purposely
,bosen with very fine print.
From that day, the happy child followed her
classes with her astonished companions. She
studied her lessons holding the book at the
ordinary distance from the eye and without
my fatigue. NOvena Of Thanksgiving was
to the Immaculate Virgin Mary, |
Health of the Weak.
LXXY.
CURE OF sWITCH-TENDBR, RELATED BIZ HIM |
SELF.
Guillaume Jsffard, switoh-tender of the
tstion of Lesponey- Laslades, on the Southern |
abroad, in the Hautes Pyrenees, was 20 fortu-
lste as to be miraculOusly cured by tho Virgin |
# Lourdes on the 23rd of April, 1869. This IL
low he himself related what happened to the
at LouTdes. We do not In any wise
hange the style.
81 was always robust !, bot prolonged labor
a bad weather brought on, sbOut seven months
go, such pain as soon prevented me from
aOvinG. The deotOE Said lt was ohronia
heznatfen, remained a bed thg6e whole