The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-17
CURED BY A MIR AoLE.
Needle Transfixing a Blessed Relic
Drawn From Her Head.
From, the st. Louis Posi- Dispatch.


From, the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The good sisters of the Visitation of this
city are sure that miracle was performed
in their midst last Thursday morning.
When they knelt down in the chapel that
day for early mass, beginning at $40 O'Clock
a. m, one of their number was In her lonely
cell, suffering frnm the agony of a disease
which she had been afflicted with fer nearly
five years past. Before they arose from
their knees this sister stood in the tribune
looking down in the chapel, healed, her face
radiant with joy.
She had come direct from the cell Of the
Mother Superior, whittier she had flown to
tell her strange story of miraculous delive err
ance. When 1t was told also to the other
sisters, there could be but one belief con-
corning 1t. To the blessed Sister Margaret
Mary, who died In Paris in the last century.
and who is candidate for canonization by
the holy Catholic church. was due the
honor of the miraculous cure. Through
her, departed Visitation nun, had come
healing TO the young Sister Mary Phllo-
mena of st. Louis, living Visitation num-
SCENE OF THE MIRACLE.
The Order Of the Visitation Nuns is a
clustered order. The convent stands some
what back from the street, in spacious
grounds, on Cass avenue, between Nine
tenth and Twentieth streets a peaceful,
religious home. Little is known of the calm
and sweet life Of the Visitation Sisters
beyond their educational work, and a story
concerning them sounds to the great world
almost as il told of the inhabitants of some
distant or more tranquil planet. The story
of Sister Mary Philomena is full of almost
medieval fascination. 1t was told to Post
Dispatch reporter yesterday by the young
Sister herself; told with a smiling face and
in glad voice that bore witness to the iov
of sudden relief from sickness and suffering.
By Sister Mary Philomena's side as she
spoke sat the Sister lithuanian, of the con-
vent and another of the older Visitation
sisters, both of whom were deeply inter
ested in the narrative. 1t was frequently
interrupted by hurried visits to the cell of
| the Mother Superior on the floor above, TO
which she was confined by slight indispo
sition. Sister Mary Philomena was willing
and glad to tell all about the miraculous
cure, of whicn she was the central figure,
but then some points arose upon which the
| Mother had to be consulted. Before she
had concluded the young sister sat with the
blessed relic in her hands, TO which she
| attributed her deliveranoe The relic was a
small fragment of linen that had once
touched the heart Of the blessed Sister Mar
garet Mary, dead these hundred years and
more.
| STORY OF SISTER MARY PHILoMENA.
For the past five years Sister Mary Philo-
mena, one Of the youngest sisters In the
convent in this city, had suffered from what
was believed to be an abscesS that threat
ened final injury to the brain. The first
symptoms Of the disease developed in an
abscess of the ear. This was followed by
agnozinR pains in the head, swelling of the
face neck and left shoulder, and a sensa-
tion as II there we're a constant boring into
the brain. From year to year these forms
Of suffering remained, until at last the
young sister was almost constant invalid
| the strange pain in the head settling in the
left upper portion, and never ceasing. Last
January anew feature of the disease deyel-
oped. Twice a day the sister would be
thrown into high fever, her temperature
sometimes rising as high as 12O, and al.
ways reaching 49, which is higher than
the danger point.
Then came a development that caused the
deepest apprehension. AT times there
would appear around the young sister.
eyes disooloration and swelling as of coaR.
ulated blood caused by terrific blow. Al
first this new symptom was accompanied
by bleeding Of the nostris and ears but
finally actual hemorrhage Of the eyes fol
lowed and blood would drip from them for
hours at time. Partial blindness resulted
from these strange attacks, a blindness SC
nearly total that Sister Mary Philomena
would be unable to distinguish the Sister
Infrmarian or the Mother Superior In their
frequent visits TO the clustered cell wbict
] stood between those Of the two named.