The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

hard times is that instead of remaining
in the hotels and boarding houses for a
few days the pilgrims come in the morn
pense.
THE SAINTS ADHERENTS.
The natives of the place do their best to
maintain its reputation for miracles. If a
sufferer complains that he has spent his
money without finding relief they fall back
on the old saying, "Quand Dieu ne veut, lie
saint ne peut" or tell him he must come
next year. as ST. Anne loves those who per-
severe. If he grumbles at having to pay
smartly at his hotel or for souvenirs of the
shrine. they shrug their shoulders with the
remark. "A petit saint petit offrande; a
grand saint, grande offrande," and If he I'M
destands French he feels rebuked. Modern
science has just set up temple nard Dy
at the famous MOntmorency fails, whose
power is employed to supply electric lght
and run the trolley cars In quebec, ten
miles away, which, after all, is greater
miracle than any recorded in the Annales.
Given their saints, 1t would not be diff
cult TO write tolerably accurate sketch OF
the social life and manners of a people 1t
is not SO easy, however, TO account Tor the
rise and fall of particular saints IN popular
esteem. In the early days of French Cana
da st. John the Baptist and St Joseph We're
greatly Venerated; their names were given
TO most Of the male children. st. Peter ana
st. Paul We're also popular especially IN
the Island of Orleans, where relics of them
were kept After a while St. Francois
Xavier and ST. Alphonse de Ligourl doomed
up, while still later, though he was no saint
NapoleOns became the 'faVorite name at
the font Peter and Paul are seldom heard
of now, St. Joseph is passing Off the stage
and John the Baptist, though still the ma
tiOnal saint is not as important person.
age as he was. The fashionable saint, so
to speak, at present Is 81: Antnony ,, %
boxes inscribed with his name. If you de-
sire a special grace or TO recover some lost
4 rysif
to the saint and drop it into one OF the
boxes; it contains promise, In case your
prayer is answered to place q sum OF OF
money in the other trunk tor the Denent OF
the poor If the prayer be answered, the
letter is withdrawn from trunk NO ana
you deposit the money in No. z rms cutI
is known as 'IaeuVre du pain de SAINT
Antoine" Joan of Arc is certain 10 De
a popular saint; she appeals 70 the parucu-
larist or national sentiment which pi aiSiti -
large a part in French Canadian pQlltlte3s:
They are selling statuettes of her alreauy
with an inscription proclaiming her
'"The fairest lily on the shield of France
With heart of virgin gold.
St. Anne has held her own so far patty
because her cult was brought from Bflt-
tany by the first settlers and partly oWlns
to the energy with which the so-called MIR ~,
and near by the RedemptOr1stS, VINO nave
had charge of the shrine for the last twenty
years. The relic, piece OF the llhSeI-politf
brought from Brittany in Laval time, Is
still exhibited; it is enclosed IN a cIySedl
case enbe dded in a bronze arm when SlanC 5
on the left of the grand altar. Otnef fellCS
bavo since been procured from the same
place. the Church of sainte-Anne d Auray.
The saint appeared there in lG24 to a peas
ant named Yves NicolaZic. "Je sulS ANNE
mere de Marie" she said, and she told
him that 924 years before chapel had been
erected in her honor on plot OF grouinIu
close by and she desired to see 1t repullt.
she had never appeared at Beaupre,. though
some suspect she was the woman IN %h l1e
who according to tradition, encourage the
E'ranch-Canadians at the battle of I1con-
deroga. She has no great love for the Brit Britt
ish This seems to be recognized on az
shore of the St Lawrence from Beaupre TO
Cape Tourmente in 1883, they tried three
times to set fire to her chapel at Beaupre,
hut she miraculously extnguished the
flames