The Portland daily press., 1898-09-29

or turpentine plasters had been applied.
On reaching home he told his wife. who
promptly suggested to him that he had
received cure, and SO 1t proved. He
returned In 1895, on a pilgrimage of
thanksgiving, now quite free from the
disease of the kidneys and it's attendant
stiffness and pains in the back and loins.
In fact, as he told the listners, he was as
supple as boy, and could climb tree
with any OF them. On his second visit,
when he pathed three times. he left
behind, so he AYERS, his chronic bronchitis
and soiatioa. He is now turned CO., and
hale and hearty and able to work for his
livelihood and most grateful to God for
the favor shown to him in ST. Winefride' s
Well.
Lucy Frances O'Hare, 2s9 Crown street,
Liverpool, visited the Well with the Liv-
erpool pilgrims on Aug. 30 in company
with her father and mother and sister
Aged II, she had been all but deaf for
twelve years through an attack of
measles. Har white face and vacant
expression bore evident testimony to the
reality of the deafness. At O'Clock she
had asked to be allowed to battle, but at
that hour it was not possible to allow
her, SO her mother contented herself with
applying the water of the Well to her
ears. At that moment. 1t felt, the
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elected from her ears and Immediately
she heard quite clearly. She was inter
viewed by Father James Hayes, s. j.,
Rector of st. Francis XAVIER Q. Liverpool
who had accompanied tho pilgrims and
by Father Beauolerk. She could hear
them easily and distinctly. The genuine
joy of the girl and of her sister and par
markable cure had taken place. She
was regularly besieged II the crowd OF
pilgrims who were collected on the road
preparatory to leaving for the station
1t Is to be noted that this cure took nlace
on the octave day of the Feast OF the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
A remarkable cure is reported IN the
case Of James Blanohtield, AZ years of age,
a WAGNER living at 10 LaWer street,
Brownhill, Bailey, Yorkshire. Blanchfield
states that in August last year he was
cured of fractured knespan by bath
in ST. Wineride's Well. The facts are
these: BIanobfleld was shifting wagon
when his feet slipped and he fell on his
back, the shafts descending heavily upon
him. The backbone hook of one of the
shafts struck his right knee, breaking
the patella. This was on May 1S, 1897.
He went to the Cottage Hospital in Bat
ley for week, but the doctor in attend
anoe discharged him. He then took the
advice of famous bone setter, who also
l0liou w ouio ulM. AHoGueC ooCtOr
then took him in hand and kept him in
bed with an iron splint on his leg for four
weeks. After shis he was Obliged to
wear q plaster of paris bandage for eight
weeks more. Under this treatment his
leg used to swell and become discolored
from the knee to the toes, but no perma-
nent benefit resulted. lie was advised
as the only chance of improvement to
go TO another specialist and undergo an
operation, which consisted of opening
the knee and stitching up the fractured
patella. He chose rather to come to St
Winefride's Well, and he arrived in Holy
well.at the end Of August He bAthed
altogether about nine times, but, accord
ing to his statement, the euro seems to
have been wrought on the second or third
bath. He returned to his employer in
Bailey, declaring himself able to work,
but the latter refused to believe In the