The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-01
THE ST. AIMS RELIC.
.,ANy PERSONS CLAIM BENEFIT
Nv GENERATING THE FRAGMENT.

MANY PERSONS CLAIM BENEFIT
Nv GENERATING THE FRAGMENT.
,,-s Rhoda &. Whites Experience.
uo- Cure From Serious Illness.
remarkable Restoration to Health
oga San Francisco Woman.
From. the Nero York Herald.
7. has been ten days since Mgr. MARQUIS
Mt away from the little Church of st.
Ian Baptiste, in East Seventy-six street,
18th the relic OF St. Ann, leaving behind
him many persons who averred their partial
- complete cure Of deformity or disease.
called yesterday on several of those re-
,orted to have been benefited to learn if
Epo-r,anent results had been experienced. 1
rouad on Miss Rhoda E. White of No. 1851
PIX avenue, who lives with her brother,
Nor. Bernard O'Reilly. the chosen
hi9grapher of his holiness Leo XIII Miss
WHITE was out when l called. While wait
ing for her Mgr. O'Reilly told me that last
Dscamber his sister, who is in advanced life,
had been attacked by the grip. For many
weeks she lay in bed unable to change her
POSITION without the did Of servants.
"Her insomnia was so terrible" said Mgr.
O,Raillv. that we feared for her reason.
me relic was brought to her bedside, and
che kissed the box in which it was held.
"Sbe experienced no relief, but so great
was her faith that on the day following she
was taken to the Church of st. Jean Bap-
,;ste carried to the altar and touched by
Father Tetreau with the relic. That night
she slept soundly and awoke the next morn
jng apparently completely restored to
health. An almost total deafness had dis
appeared. =,
This was on May 5 :" said Mgr. O'Reilly,
sand she has been entirely we'll since then. "
While was talking with Mgr. OReilly
Mrs White came in. She looked strong
and well, and talked in ordinary tones OF
incidents in her acquaintance with Presi-
dent Lincoln. whom she had known we'll.
MRS. DUFFY's CASE.
At No. 416 West Thirty-second street ]
called on Mrs. Duffy. Until three weeks
ago she had been paralyzed on Que side and
had had no use Of her right leg and arm.
She was out driving yesterday, "the first
time in fifteen years" said her daughter
Mrs. Gillespie Mother has been much
better since she went to the church. She is
not we'll but she is much better than she
was. She can walk about the house and
help herself a thing she had not done for
fifteen years" just then Mrs. Duffy was
brought into the house from the carriage in
the arms Of her son-in-law, Mr. Gillespie.
She had not been able to ascend the steps,
and she had almost to be carried through
the hall and upstairs to her room. 1.-THE
ride has worn you out, mother, said Mrs.
Gillespie, but her mother protested that it
had not and that she would go out again.
Mrs Duffy looked to be resolute and full OF
courage as well as faith. but very helpless
woman. ....
Miss Ann Stetson, of No. 15S West Twenty
fourth street. was out when l called. The
woman with whom she boarded told me
about Miss Stetson's case.
"She had suffered for a long time with an
ulcer on her right ankle She went to the
Church of st. Jean Bapusse and venerated
the relic. The day after the ulcer disap-
peare1 and she was completely well. There
is another woman In the house, Miss Mary
Finnegan, who had seen the result of Miss
StetsoL's faith and she went to kiss the relic
too. She was lame and walked with crutches
on account Of Assesses both internal ano
external She was helped, but not cured
Instead Of walking with crutches she car
get along with a cane now"
Miss Finnegan was out with Miss Stetson
HER EYES HELPED.
Irene Prendergast, the 2-year-old daugh-
ter of Thomas +. Prendergast, of No. 22l
West Twentieth street, had suffered siuce
she was months old with what eminent
oculists diagnosed as graduated eyehds
Her mother took the girl to the church and
her eyes we're touched with the relic.
saw Irene yesterday. and although the
child's eyes were not well a member Of the
family told me they were much better than
they had been.
Miss Mamie Mccullough, of No. 1885
Third avenue, has almost lost her voice from
tonstis.
Her throat was so bad" said her brother
James Mccullough, that DIR. Lynch ad-
vlsed her to submit to an operation. He
intended to cut out a portion of her tcnsils.
That was Saturday two weeks ago. She
went to the church and kissed the relic to
see If it would help her. She could feel no
change, and that afternoon she was out
riding with some friends She told them
she had kissed the relic.
You don't believe in that, do you?
asked one Of the girls, and though they were
Catholics, too, they joked her about 1t.
Mamie began to argue with them aud to say
t6at she believed In st. Ann. She felt some,
thing break in her throat and instantly fell
SIC was well. She found she could sing anC
she has been we'll since then. This afternoon
sne Is singing in the vesper service"
CURE OF AN ABsCEss.
The priests in attendance at st. Jear
Baplste kept no record of cures, and Fathe,
Ietreau tod me that very few cases had
been reported in the newspapers.
Mgr O'Reilly told me of a woman
socially prominent in San Francisco who
had vene ated the relic. She was stopping
at the Hoffman house, but he would moi
permit her name to be published.
She had, " he said, ian abscess on her
Side which no medical treatment would
cure She had nsulted specialists iu
Europe, but they could not help her. After
she had visited the relic the abscess went
away, 1t entirely disappeared. In this
ease there was an organic change-an actual
restoration of the bodily substance. 1t can
not he explained on any theory of imagina
uon or suggestion. 1t was manifestation
OF divine power"