The evening world., 1894-07-24
CURED BY A RELIC i?
Wonderful Recovery of Little
Valentine Gebelt,
Able TO Walk After Visiting 81. lean
Baptiste Church.
Many Pilgrims Said to BE on Their
Way Here.

The annual pilgrimage 30 the little
church Of St. Jean Baptstc, in seventy
sixth street, near Lexington avenue IL
again in progress. This IL the nuNcna
of the feast Of St Anne. the mother Of
the Virgin Mary.
The novena Is, as the name Implies.
nine days preparation preceding
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, .. NJ. l.. Of Mon
treal. also breaches at $50 A. NJ and
y. NJ. every day.
IT is only two years since this cult has
sprung up at ST Jeans and is quite the
result OF chance. IT happened the Mgr
Marquis OF st. Anne Beaupre, in Can
ada, stopped for awhile two years ago
at the house of Father r. Tetreau, the
pastor OF st. Jeans. Mgr. Marquis was
on his way home from Rome. where
he had been to secure IL portion OF the
wrist bone OF st. Anne.
While at Father retreau's the mon
slgnor allowed this relic TO be exhibited
during certain hours each day. The
church became crowded with worship
pers and tie curious. ana several
MIRACULOUS tNIeS from contact win tnt
relic were soon reported.
After Mgr. Marquis's departure
Father Tetreau begged the Pope to pre-
| sent his church, too, portion OF the
| and shortly before tne feast OF ST
Anne, Aug. .. 1ss2 piece OF the bone.
about two Inches long by IL inches
wide. arrived and was placed on exhibit
From that dny to his the shrine has
been visited daily by hundreds. often
thousands. OF persons, morally the
blind. the halt ana the Otherwise sick
or disabled. Now and then sudden cures
we're reported; but the late 81. and per
haps most wonderful Of those. Is that of
| fcnr-year-old Naleatine Gebelt. who lives
with his parents at jSs First avenue.
| Little Valentine had, 1t Is said. suffer
| irg lons time from double spine and
| hip disease, and was frequently taken Ia
avenue and Forty-second street. There
| he was put In braces and furnished with
| a high-heeled shoe. one OF the child's
| legs being considerably shorter than the
| other
Although these appliances served to
lessen Valentines pain, his cure seemed
as remote AS ever. so last September
Mrs Gebelt visited St Anne's shrine,
and one of the priests touched the lit
tie sufferers body with the rel
The first visit seemed to bear no
third visit towards the end Of septem-
Der. after kissing the rclicuarN in
which lay the bone, little Valentine eA-
| ella lined:
Mamma. | feel better now, please
take off the braces. Al the same time,
according to those who say they wit
| l essed the event. Valentine made efforts
to free himself from his bandases:
and when THESE We're tax" or. they say
| he stood erect awhil" and then began
| to walk about
| 1t was noticed. however. that the lit.
| tie fellow lnnped very considerably
| Somebody suggested that this might be
owing to the thick soled shoe. Ills
| shoes We're, accordingly, taken on, and
and even n gait as II his legs had never
been of unequal length.
| These fucts are testified to by grown
| persons and children in the neishbor-
| hood OF little Valentines home az well
~ hv the priests and nuns attached It
the Church Of ST, Jean Baptste.
| 4 physician gave II as his opinion
| that the child had suffered from ner'
vous malady that simulated douhl,
spine and hip disease, and had becom,
whole when the nervous strain was re
moved. This. however. Is regarded 10y
others as very unlikely in so young I
child
It Is reported thai a company OF M
pilgrims Is on It's way to. ST, Anuc's
shrine from great distance. Nothinl
was known Of this at the church,
n.nC- To St Jeans that the Maris
Brothers, under Brother IcphNitni
have been enabled to build and thor
ouehlv equip n great school. which they
call ST Aune's Academy. next door I,
the church. 1t will accommodate" IN
students, and viii be open for nstruc
ton some time In September