Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-28
CURED BY FAITH.
The Wonderful Story of Sister Angela
of Macon,


Telegraph and Messenger Of Saturday, Sept. s7.
In Tuesdays issue of the Telegraph we
made mention of the remarkable cure of
Sister Angela from a long illness.
The news of the cure spread over the
city, and, as usual, was greatly eXagger-
ated. That the facts may be given, we
visited Mount de Sales yesterday and
heard from the lady's own lips the story
of her long suffering, and remarkable re-
cOvery.
When Miss Henrietta King, of Column
bus, Ca, was Is years of age, she took
the veil and became a Sister of Mercy.
Her first work was as teacher in our pub
lie schools. About three years ago she
had her first hemOrrhage, and then the
physicians pronounced her disease con-
sumption. She went to Atlanta, but the
physicians there told her it was consump-
ton, and then she went into a slow de-
cline, wasting away.
Eight months ago she went to her bed to
remain there, and only once in that time
did she go down stairs, and then she was
CARRIED IN A CHAIR.
She did not wish to live, and ofte n
prayed for death. She suffered much, and
was so weak she was unable to turn her.
self over IN her couch. Her only nour-
ishment was barely three ounces of milk
per day. She received every possible at
tention from the sisters, and was faith
fully attended by DR.. W. +. Holt. He
gave her but little medicine, sometimes
an opiate to produce sleep.
She suffered in this way, daily praying
for death to relieve her. On Sept. ID, at
the request of Bishop Gross, she began
saying the NOvena, or prayer for nine
days, addressing the picture of the Lady
of Perpetual Help, which hung in the
chaIel at the convent. On the Saturday
following, her brother, Mr.. j. K. King, of
Montgomery, visited her, and seeing her
dying condition, telegraphed his family
to come to Macon to look upon Sister An
CELIA for the last time. Business called
Mr.. King to Albany, intending to return
on Tuesday, when he would meet lis
family.
THE NINE DAYS OF PRAYER
expired on Sunday, and on that evening
Bishop Gross was at the convent and told
Sister Angela goodbye, without hope of
ever seeing her alive again. She was
very sick when he left, suffering greatly
from suppressed breathing. Twice she
was lifted and carried to the window for
fresh air.
Early Monday morning Sister Angela
awoke. AS she completed saying her
rosary she felt a peculiar sensation, a
feeling of awe, as she expresses it, and
following the strange sensation came
strength. She seemed to feel the strength
infused into her entire frame. She now
thought her prayers had been answered.
ard Sister Genevieve, the Mother Supe-
rlor of the convent, was sent for. When
the Mother Superior arrived, Sister An.
gela informed her of the new feeling, and
then she
AROSE AND DRESSED
herself without aid whatever in the pres
ence of the Mother Superior, who was
dumb with establishment. When dressed,
Sister Angela proceeded down the stairs
her feet had not touched for eight months.
She preceded the Mother Superior and did
not falter in her steps. She went into the
parlor and rooms below, and the several
sisters looked upon her as an apparitiOn.
They could scarcely believe their own eyes.
She whom they thought would in a few
days be corpse stood before them with
radiant face and firm, unfaltering step.
Sister Angela attended all the exercises
of the morning, walked all about the
building, going up and down stairs, into
the dining room and then about the
grounds. In the afternoon she accompa-
MED Sister Genevieve and Sister Alphon-
sus in a carriage to Pho Mono College,
nearly two miles away. The ride
THROUGH THE DUST AND HEAT
causing her to cough. At the college she
walked up the stairs as nimbly as if she
was girl, and returned to the convent at
8 O'Clock, suffering no inconvenience from
the night air, and retiring for the night
feeling no fatigue whatever.
On Tuesday morning she arose at
O'Clock and went through all the exercises
peculiar to the institution, and she says
she did not feel tired in the least. In the
afternoon her brother called to see her.
He waited in the parlor for some one to
conduct him to the room occupied.by his
sister, whom he expected to see dying.
Judge of his surprise when he saw his
sister walk into the parlor.
Sister Angela has continued to improve,
and says she is well. She has no cough,
and has not eXpectOrated once since Mon
day morning.
Yesterday afternoon DIR. Holt called in
DR.. Hammond, and together they exam
ined Sister Angela. They found her lungs
in much better condition than they were
found to be in an examination held six
weeks ago.
THE DISEASE is STILL THERE,
but the lungs are in good condition, and
she can fill them with perfect ease, and
there is no pain in the chest as heretofore.
In the three years of her sickness she
has had some Is or 20 violent hemor-
rhages. She has wasted away from 81
pounds to 60 pounds. During her eight
months suffering she drank from two to
three ounces of milk; now she drinks
from four to five.
She is petite lady, highly educated,
and yesterday she was bright and SEEM
ingly very happy. The case is a remark
able one, and excites considerable COM
ment. The physicians are puzzled over
the sudden return of strength. Eight
months upon bed would weaken the
stOutest frame, and yet she, so frail, is
able to suddenly walk about and go
through her duties.
THE WONDERFUL PICTURE.
The picture which is believed by CathO-
lies to work these miraculous cures is one
of about eighty copies in the United
States of the original, which is in the
Church of the RedemptOrist in Rome.
The original was lost for many years, but
found by some inspired person in the time
of Pope Plus. 1t was blessed by Pope
Leo and few copies made. These copies
must touch the original before being given
out.
The copy in the chapel at Mount de
Sales is rather odd in appearance, and
seems to be painted on wood. 1t hangs
in an alcove in the chapel, and is guarded
sacredly. 1t is twenty-five inches in
height by eighteen inches in width, and is
painted in distemper on gold ground. The
Virgin Mary in half figure holds her
infant on her left arm, and with her right
arm presses the hands of The infant to her
breast. She wears a dark azure mantle,
lined with green; the tunic is red, and,
like the mantle, edged with gold. The
folds of the dress are marked by gilded
lines. The infant Jesus is represented as
a grown child; one of his sandals has
fallen off. He clasps His mothers arm in
terror, as if he wished to seek refuge in
her bosom. About the picture are several
Greek letters, which mean Mother Of God,
Jesus Christ, the Archangel Michael, etc.
SOME OTHER CURES.
Cures by faith and by prayer are not
uncommon. Some years ago the wife of
Col. John A. Wimpy, of North Georgia,
was cured by faith after being bedridden
for II years. She surprised her husband
and the congregation by walking into
church on Sunday as sound and well as
she ever was, and, if the story is true, she
has never had a relapse. Her case was
noted one, and at the time created sem
sation all over the State.