The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-17

The usual way to use the cement is to mix
it with holy water and bind it on the dis
eaSed spot. Here is some of the wood.
Mr.. Geoghegan took from behind the bar a
paper in which were a few bits of soft wood,
that seemed to he the moulding from a win
dow casing. They were painted q dirty white,
except, of course, on the ends, where they
had been sawed into small pieces
81 have given several of the bits away -
continued Mr. Gcoghegan. - | stayed in
Knock two days. y very comfortable hotel
has been built for the accommodation of the
many pilgrims that flock there from II parts
of the country and from other countries
/ They have left behind them proofs of the
healing power of the cement in a pile Of
sticks and crutches on which they hObbled to
the chapel, and which they abandoned when
they went away cured While / was there
Father Cavanagh showed me letter written
by the Nun of kenmare to the Rev. L !.
Canon BOurke, the great Irish scholar. In
this letter the Nun wrote that she had been
an invalid for many years, confined to her
bed much OF the time, but that she had been
cured by the cement and the Blessed Mother.
She wrote that she hoped that she did not
offend God by taking out of His hands the
punishment that He had seen fit to lay upon
her. There is no collection taken there but
Il box stands by the shrine with the words
For our Lady Knock on it. In this the
visitor may drop his offering There is no
compulSion. Any gift is received, from a
penny to a pound, and no one knows what
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church, which suffers continually from the
pilgrims that constantly visit it. 3"
- Do you know, from personal experience,
of any cures besides your own ."
Il do, said Mr.. Geoghegan. ''There is
Robert Murray, the son of the widow, Eliza
Murray, who keeps that weil-known inn.
The Three Jolly Pigeons at Auburn, three
miles from Ballymahon, i'll county Longford.
Goldsmith speaks Of the inn in his Deserted
Village knew Robert when he was a boy.
He had crooked leg, and walked with
crUtch and a cane, his crooked leg twisted
around the crutch. For fifteen years he was
lame, until he went to Knock chapel, and
came away cured, leaving his crutch behind
him. Another cure was that of the son of
Matthew Lovett mailer of Ballymahon
The boy had a running sore on his neck, APP
parcntly incurable. He went to Knock,
bound on the cement, and | mVSplf saw him
with his neck as dry and well as the back of
my hand. Then saw Il young man in En-
par, county WeStmcath, who, when Z years
old fell from house. and suffered for four
teen years with an enlargement of the hip
joint that made him a cripple. lie was ear
Tied to the Knock church. and hit of the ce-
ment was bound on the hip. While i'm the
church praying he began To suffer great ago
ny. He was carried to the car, and on the
way home suffered intensely-so much 50
that his friends feared he would die. When
they took him from the cart in which he
was riding, lump AS big a. a turnip' as
they express il, came out where the cement
was bound, and burst. The pain ceased and
to-day the young man is cured and walks
without crutchcS.
Il know of these cases by personal ohser-
Vation, and these are all do know, in that
way. There are many other cases that | am
satisfied are bona fide cures, but they come
to me second hand, and perhaps you don't
care for them. ] saw the shoe of boy who.
when he went to the church. had a club foot.
the toes being turned in toward the other leg,
you know. When he went away his foot was
as straight as the other one. Father Cava-
nagh keeps a list of the cured and it con
tains many wonderful cases. You ought To
go out there and see for yourself. -