The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-24
CURED BY A RELIC ?
Wonderful Recovery of Little
Valentine Gebelt.
Able TO Walk After Visiting 81. lean
Baptiste Church.
Many Pilgrims Said to He on Their
Way Here.

The annual pilgrimage TO the little
church of ST. Jean Baptiste, in Seventy
sixth street. nca- Lexington avenue, is
again In progress. This il the novena
OF the feast Of -. Anne, the mother OF
the Virgin Mary.
The novena is as the name implies. a
nine days preparation preceding n
feast, and In this instance commenced
last Tuesday and will end Thursday,
when masses will be said every hour
from until II o'clock in the morning.
Rev. Father Gladu, o. NJ. l., OF Mon
treal. also breaches at $50 4. NJ. and
r. NJ. every day.
II is only two years since this cult has
| sprung up at st. Jeans. and Is quite the
result of chance. II happened the Mgr.
Marquis Of st. Anne Beaupre, in Can
ada. stopped for awhile two years ago
at the house OF Father f.. Tetreau. the
pastor OF St. Jeans. Mgr Marquis was
on his way home from Rome, where
he had been to secure portion of the
wrist bone OF st. Anne.
While at Father Tetreaus the mon.
signor allowed this relic to be exhibited
during certain hours each day. The
church became crowded with worship
pers and curious. and several
| miraculous cures from contact with the
relic were soon reported.
After Mgr. Marquis's departure
| Father Tetreau begged the Pope to pre-
sent his church, too, a portion of the
| relic. This request was compiled with,
and shortly before the feast OF st.
Anne Aug no 49, iao piece Of the bone
wide. arrived and was placed on exhibit
| ton at the church.
From that dry to his the shrine has
been visited daily by hundreds. often
| thousands OF pprEDlg. npTlllv the
blind. the halt and the otherwise sick
or disabled. Now and then sudden cures
hars most wonderful Of these, is that OF
& ur-year-old Nalritine Gebelt, who lives
with his parents at 55s First avenue.
| Little Valentine had. IT IL said. suffer.
hip disease. and was frequently taken to
| the Hospital for Cripples. at Lexington
| avenue and Forty-second street. There
me was put in braces and furnished with
| a hgh-heeled shoe. one OF the child
legs being considerably shorter than the
other.
Although these appliances served to
lessen Valentines pain his cure seemed
Mrs. Gebelt visited St Annes shrine.
and one OF the priests touched the lit
fruit: nor did the second but at the
third visit. towards the end Of Septem-
Der, after kissing the ,relicnary in
| claimed:
Mamma. l feel better now; please
| take OF the braces" At the same time,
according to those who say they wit
| ressed the event. Valentine made efforts
| to free himself from his bandages:
and when these were take off. they say
ne stood erect awhile and then began
| to walk about.
1t was noticed, however, that the lit
tie fellow limped very considerably
Somebody suggested that this might be
| owing to the thick -soled shoe. His
shoes were. accordingly. taken Oft, and
he then walked, 1t is said, with as firm
| and even a gait as IT his legs had never
been OF unequal length.
| These facts are testified TO by grown
persons and children in the neighbor.
| hood OF little Valentines home. as well
as by the priests and nuns attached to
| the Church OF st. Jean RRptiste.
A physician gave II as his opinion
vous malady that simulated double
spine and hip disease, and had become
whole when the nervous strain was re-
moved. This, however. is regarded by
others az very unlikely in so young n
child.
II In reported that company Of nm
pilgrims Is on its way to St Anne's
| shrine from a great distance Nothing
was known Of this at tho church.
| The new cult has given such promi-
hence to St. Jeans that the Marist
have been enabled to build and thor
oughlv equip great school. which they
| call st. Anne's Academy, next door to
the church II will accommodate bOt
students. and will he open for instruc.
| ton some time in September.