, 1877-09-23

CAN ADA'S EARlN Il.
CURES PERFORMED HY STE. ASSE's FINGER
BONE
1Se,o Fork traid
SrE. ANNE DE REAuPRE, Quebec, Sept. 49,
The season here is nearly OYER. 1t has been one
OF une1ampled success, the reported miracles
being many, and the attendance of the deyout
enormous. Already the trees On the Petit Cap
beneath which nesties the good saints chapel
are losing their leaves; the wind whistles shrill
these 1ndlan-summer nights through the st.
Joachim woods; the Falls OF Ste. Anne begin to
look wintry, and the noisy tourist has gone,
leaving tie shrine to the piors curo aut the SIM
pie villagcr. This year, as I wrote the W'orie@
come weeks ago, his Holiness dedicated all Low
er Canada to Ste. anne, md The religious cere-
monies and pi1grimages have neen the grandcst
ever seen here. i little work in French has
just been issued, called 1.-THE Pilgrimage to Ste.
Anne's," which gives the only official record of
this shrine ret published, and which is dedicated
to the saint and her children, the faithful Of
Quebec, in commemoration Of this year IT
grace and 'sthe blessings it has brought to the
French-C Canadian people, notably the recent
deiication.''
The discovery Of the relic of Ste. Anne, u
frger-bone from which les within the altar OF
her chapel here. is related at great length and
wlth much minuteucss vi detail. In the rclgn
Ut Marcus Aureilus, the inildels during an lnVa-
sion Of the Holy Land, burned all the collins
which they found in the public or private monu-
u,ents IN the sacred PLACES. Only one coffin es-
capped this pru.anation and that because the
intilels could neither consume 1t with fire nor
force it open. Enraged ut this, they threw 1t
into the sea, and ii was borne 10 point near
the Town oi Apt, ia Provence. There 1t re
1nalnel among thu wre.kayc rocks, and sand
for many, many years. Ont day. however,
some pious fishermen caught big fish III their
nets, anu, on dragging it ashurc, it leaped and
struggled so violently that it uncovered tho COT
hn, which was then carried to the Bishop Of
Apt. He could not open it, and hence he knew
that it contained sacred relics. The times were
troublous, anu the good Bishop, fearing to lose
the coffin, PLACED it in crypt, and, hanging
burning lamp before it. had it walled up. Some
centuries later and CharlemaGne came to Apt
to restore the shrlnes polluted by the bias
phemies Of the idolatcrs. To enable the Chris
tian Prince and his Court to enter the town the
more readily, some OF the ancient walls were
covered with tho lamp still burning before The
coffin. John, the sou OF Baron Cazeneure,
diguitary OF Apt, entcrct! the crypt first. from
his birth lie had been deaf and dumb, but sud
denly prostrating himself, he cried out, sin
this holy place reposcs the body Ut the glorious
Charlcnlagnc thcu entered the vault, and with
out any trouble opened Inc collin, III WHICH Tue
body was found iutact, with this inscription in
the Greek, Hebre~. Latin. and syro- -Ch:4daic
tongues: .'.rhis is the body OF ST. Anne, the
mutilcr Of the Virgin MaTy' A church was
init nrer Tho snot hit the INST fau1o,ls Of the
s,.rnas Now wv tnat fmneJ nearly XAI wears
a@u ., M nt n, % nmi,le hamlet III Brittany, md which
is now Known as st. Allllc aaaraY. Inc
2ayentnrous Bretoa mariners wno came ~ 75 70
brought to these shores tic alteration of Ste.
Anne, and IN 1tIs u precious relic, finger
r,n'',a,..,< ~. Ethos No,,ra} !, Ts,;, ,r,ss;ou.
ary, % and pre;cptrd - t to Mrr. b. Laval, the trst
Bishop OF 4ucbrc. VINO solcmnly exposed it in
the first church in This village ou the l3tl,:of
Marvh, l61O- III 1913 joint Of the saints lin
81. Rome Gualy, aud it now lies in thu altar
stoue Of thr Uuebrc Cathedral, The first church
10 - t1 avoid iIlnuation ' t W.; torn % down and tie
oresnt m % churcI, bnit by Fati,er Flion' in 1t;,;
beneath the heights o. tue Petlf lap: lweiye
otner churches are dedicated to tie saint in this
,+ +ta m ar rau.,,r1,d ar1 m oct holy