The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01
FAITH WROUGHT A. CURE,
Use of Limbs Restored to a Girl
Afflicted With Spinal
Disease.
Shrine Said to Have Worked
the Miracle.

NEW YORK, n. Y, July 31.-Yonkers
is much excited over the case of Mary G.
Blute, who has suffered with a spinal dis
ease for nine years, and until last Friday
had not been able to walk step since
March 10. Her age is II. She is the
daughter of Butcher John II. Blute of f73
Ashburyton avenue, Yonkers, and is the
oldest of seven children, three boys and
four girls. The other six children are
strong and healthy.
Mary, when years old, began to COM
plain of a numbness in her legs, which in
creased as she grew older. She was taken
to number of physicians, all OF whom
expressed surprise at the case and event.
ually acknowledged themselves baffled by
it. Specialists like DR.. Charles e. Nam
rnacke and DR.. Moses H. Starr acknowl-
edged their inability to help her. She was
exhibited last October at the Academy of
Medicine in West Forty-third street before
sixty-hve physicians and surgeons. They
allshook their heads and decided it an in
durable case. Several medical journals
took up the matter, publishing detailed ac-
counts of it as an unprecedented case.
No physician was found who could help
her, although several experimental with
her, and her father expended large sum
in his efforts to obtain her relief.
Her parents are devout Roman Catho-
lies, and hearing last fall of the miracles
worked by the relic of st. Anne in East
Seventy-sixth street, this city, decided to
subject her to the test. She was repeatedly
brought to New York and the miracle
working relic was applied to her limbs,
but 1t did not prove efficacious. Mean
while she kept getting worse, and on
March 10 she collapsed completely and her
ability to walk left her altogether. She
could only creep around on her hands and
knees, and it was necessary to carry her if
she wished to leave the house.
Father Cusic of st. Mary's Church of
Yonkers suggested short time ago that
Mr.. Blute take his daughter to st. Anne de
Beaupre, which is about twenty-five miles
from Quebec, and let her worship at the
shrine of st. Anne, at which there is an
other relic that had worked even greater
miracles than the one in Seventy sixth
street. Mr.. Blute resolved to act on the
advice, and on July % he and his daughter
started for Quebec in spite of the attempts
of his neighbors to dissuade him, who said
that it would be a useless waste of money.
Immediately on their arrival at st.
Anne de Beaupre they repaired to the
shrine, where the sacraments were admin
istered to the child and she kissed the relic.
1t was then applied to her limbs and on
the third occasion of their visit, which
was Friday afternoon, Father Flynn COM
manded her to walk.
81 cannot" she replied.
'tTry again." commanded the priest,
and with a very slight assistance from her
father, whose hand she held to gain conf
dence, she arose and walked twenty feet.
With a cry of Joy father and child sank
down and the Two offered up prayers of
thankfulness.
They returned to Yonkers on Monday
night about o'clock, and crowd of
friends gathered TO offer congratulations
Even the most skeptical acknowledged
when they saw the child walking around
yesterday that she was cured. The child s
ankles are still rather weak, but she is
rapidly improving and even now walks
around the house unaided. Mr.. Blute,
when seen last night, said that mum Der
of other cures were accomplished while he
was at Quebec. One man, he said, had his