The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-02-15
4 MODERN MIRACLE.
RAISED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE,

Nothing in the past so agtated "the
Switzerland of America" as the alleged
miracle performed by Rather Heinan, the
Roman Catholic priest in East MauchChunk.
The miracle consisted in the curing of a
woman named Amelia Greth, who was dying
,and dead) with hemorrhages from the lungs.
Miss Greth is a person of about thirty-six
wears of age, and gives her residence at No
227 South Third street, Reading, Pa Seyen
weeks ago she left her home, in the latter
city, and visited the Rev. Father Heinan.
She had been i'll for a lorg time, suffering
with hcmorhages of the lungs. Soon after
her arrival at Father Heinan's she was con-
fined to bed and her death was feared every
day. She wasted away,so that she appeared
more like a dead, than a living being In
all this there would have been nothing
strange but the woman had A revelation.
She predicted that on the morning of Satur-
day, February ,, 1878, at $50 o'clock pre-
cisely, her soul would take its flight to
worlds unknown that after an absence of
one hour in the ecstacy that is to character
ize the life of the saved in that land beyond,
her soul would return at the command of
Father Heinan that after having retaken
possession of her body she was to arise from
the bed, proceed to the church and engage
in SOemn High Mass, The woman contend
ed that she has been constantly guarded by
an angel who mas been seen not alone by her
but by her friends in public, This guardian
angel revealed to her the time and place fol
the performance of the miracle, as well a:
the manner of its execution. Immediately
thereafter she put herself in communication
with Father Heinan. Her sincerity i'm
pressed him with the truthfulness of hel
story
| THE PROPOSED MIRACLE.
Up to Monday of the week before Mis-
Greth was in full possession of her faculties
and excepting excessive weakness cause,
by the hemorrhages, apparently in goo,
health. The report of the working of tn
proposed miracle had gone abroad, and dur
ing the week thousands of people called I
SNt eAAN ldllhiul III TtNtTtUN
and awe, and the heretcs out of curiosit
and as scotlers. The community was divide
in opinion on the subject, some regardin
Father Heinan as the instrument in God
hands to do this miracle, and others declal
ing it to be the most arrant humbugger,
Father Heinan himself was most positiy
that the miracle would be wrought, and e,
tended general invitation to the publi
to the doctors and to the press to attend Ii
performance, He said that the woman WI
constantly influenced by the spirit, an
though he had never seen it, Others had al
he believed them. lie also declared that
had twice before cured her that each tin
she had gone back to Reading Those cur
were not perfect, but this was to be lastp
The cures in the past were effected by simp
commanding her, in the name of Jes
Christ to arise and walk. Father Heinz
said the power to do this came from God
February 2nd, at an early hour the toy
put on holiday appearance and car loa
/. ofpeople disembarked at East MauchChu
Long before o'clock Father IIeinau's n
idence and immediate neighborhood v
ammed by a motley crowd. The won
was found on low cot, surrounded by lad