Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-12
SAYS HE IS NOT GOING TO ROME.
Father MOllinger, the Faith Curist, to Con-
tinue His Labors.

hasn't been summoned to the Vatican by the
pope, as has been reported. He is not going
away next Monday, and when he does 60 he is
not going to Rome.
A Pittsburg dispatch says there was decided
sensation among Catholics and consterna-
ton among the invalids, who have lately been
coming to Pittsburg by the car load, when it
was announced that the white-bearded priest
had been ordered to Rome. One story was
that Leo desired to avail himself of the sup
posed wonderful powers as a physician pos
sessed by the priest. Another theory was that
the pope had sent for Father Mollinger to in
9uire into his peculiar practices as a healer Of
the sick and priest of the church
The afflicted we're appalled, at the thought
that he was going to desert them. This even
ing, however, the reverend father pronounced
the entire story canard. He wasn't going
away, he said, until the present rush of patients
was disposed Of and then only to rest as he
did every year after st. Anthony's day. Fur
thermore. the pope hadn't sent for him and he
wasn't going to Rome.
WAITING TO BE TREATED.
There are from 2, 500 to 5000 persons now in
the boarding houses Of Mount Troy to be treated
by Father Mollinger. Some have already re-
ceived his blessing and take his medicine, and
all anxiously await St. Anthony's day next Sat.
urday). when the priest-physician's power is
popularity believed to be at its height. Every
incoming train brings its share Of afflicted. The
blind, deaf, lame. palsied, paralytic, consump-
tive. rheumatic and all manner of invalids come
by the hundreds The midnight express from
the east last night brought about one hundred
and the express from the southwest as many
more. This week over 1000 have come over
the Pennsylvania lines alone.
About 200 OF these are from Nashville, Tenn,
where the reported miraculous cure of a loco
motive engineer whose legs were paralyzed set
all the cripples and invalids wild. Yesterday the
throng Of sick and suffering was so great about
the aged priests Church of the Most Holy Name
OF Jesus that he abandoned the sacristy and
took refuge in the school house near by
1t came out during the day that some Of the
priest subOrdinates were making money by
charging the sick from IS to $40 head for
hurrying them into his presence. OF course
the sufferers are only too glad to pay well to
advance their opportunity for consulting, and
the doorkeeper and other hangers-on pros
pered
The people living on the streets surrounding
the church are driving lively trade at keeping
b0arders; they expect to have from 1000 to
10000 on st. Anthony's day. Prices for
lodging are 81 to 81 day and meals cost ac-
cordingly. Sandwiches on Mount Troy sell at
rs cents apiece and milk at 10 cents a glass.
Every morning Father Mollinger celebrates
mass and the church is crowded. In the after
noon he receives patients, treating about 100
daily. The others have to wait. To each he
gives prescription and the prescriptions are
invariably filled at certain drug store, in
which, non-believing sinners say, the good
father has an interest
SOME WONDERFUL CURES.
Every day, as st. Anthony approaches. cures
more or less surprising are reported from
Mount Troy. Yesterday James Duffy of Canton,
Ohio, whose arms have been useless on account
OF palsy for years, was given a crucifix to hold.
He clutched it tightly for few moments while
the priest blessed him, and then ioyfully an
nounced that he had recovered the use Of his
arms. Alice McGowan returned to her home
at Overton, N. Y, cured of blindness. Mamie
Scanlon, who came suffering with hip disease,
and Miss j. Duff, victim Of white swelling,
both started back to Binghamton, N: Y, declar-
ing their condition much improved.
Albert Curtis, who came from Kansas City
as helpless as child from acute rheumatism
has gone home without his crutches, able to
walk unsupported. Mrs Frances Heines of
Waterloo, NY, arrived Monday in an invalid 9
chair. For eleven years she had been unable
to walk. Her legs were paralyZed. Last even
ing she was carried into Father Mollinger's
presence. He blessed her and in a few minutes
told her she was cured. She walked from the
church unaided to the establishment of her rel
atives
Father Mollinger is a Belgian by birth and
sixty-One years Of age He is skilled in medi-
cine beyond the ordinary physician. His
patron saint is Anthony of Padua. whose
miracles early in the thirteenth century made
him celebrated. A bone from his body, whic,
Father MOllinger cherishes his most pre-
cious relic is asserted to possess great curative
powers when applied to sick person.
strangely enough. while such people as the
priest cures claim to have been restored en-
tirely by faith, Father Mollinger takes no stock
in what is commonly called faith cure" He
says he administers medicines of unusual
power. Besides, he has discovered the proper
| treatment Of certain diseases. For himself he
believes that as IA Roman Catholic priest and a
healer Of the sick he possesses the power OF
| effective prayer.