The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-02


been helpless invalid for months, and
whom the doctors could not cure, arose
from her chair, stepped out and walked
steadily to the alta..-rail, where a full
heart poured out it's gratitude.
What" cried the priest; are you
cured?"
Yes, father answered the invalid
with joy too great for expression.
CONVINCING DOUBTING THOMAS.
Don't you think she could imagine
that?" inquired doubling Thomas In
the crowd.
she certainly could if she had the
imagination which you evidently pos
sess," responded the holy father. An
! other sceDtical listener suggests With
tact that there was possibility OF
these two affections not being organic.
Paralysis and spinal trouble might
have resulted from mental conditions,
which great religious enthusiasm re-
moved. Now, what about people sun er-
| ing from cancer who come here?' This
! doubter asks of Father Holland.
/ Name and address were given of
woman afflicted with cancer, who had
received treatment in the Quebec hos
pital and whose case was there pro-
| nounced incurable. As last resort.
the woman was brought TO st. Anne's.
| She was set down in the church. The
relic was applied and prayers. We're
made in her behalf Carried back to
the hotel. she grew rapidly worse.
Priests and physicians thought death
near. One OF the fathers carried the
relic to her hotel and applied it; but
in vain. The woman was told to pre-
pare for death. She then took the relic
of st. Anne in her own hand and cried
ort "Ohl 7 am cured!"
This woman. who had not been able
to stand for months and whose cancer
the doctors declared incurable and GER
tain to result in early death, assembled
the whole length of the holy stairs,
step by STEP unaided, and went about
the village Of st. Anne alone for
whole week, before departing for her
home.
But the doctor might have been mis-
taken" interrupted an unsatistied
auditor Has there been a case of a
person radically and plainly defective
from birth who has been cured here?"
Why The case of young Riley from
Reading, Pa, was of that description,
answered Father Holland. This boy
was born blind. His people held a GER
tificate from the doctors that he could
not be cured. His mother brought him
here, few weeks ago. Mother and son
knelt at the altar-rail. The mother was
silently praying, while the relic was
passed over the boys eyes. The boy.
eyes, picked up a fiVe-cent piece and
found and picked up a pin on the floor.
The strange thing about it was that the
little chap couldn't understand glass.
When we showed him the jewels in
glass cases, he tried to put his little
fist through the glass and couldn't
understand what stopped him. That
boy is now all right and his people are
erecting a tablet to commemorate the
miraculous cure"
A more impressive monument to re-
ligiouS belief and human gratitude
than the interior of the Balisica could
not be found. Neither artistic skill nor
money has been spared to honor st.
Anne by lavish decoration of the great
church. At the end of the central aisle
Immediately in front of the altar-rail,
stands the statue of st. Anne. The fig
IRE is mounted on pure onyx column
of chaste green shade around which
are entwined VotiVe offerings. A rail
ing. filled with more clutches, -encir-
cleS the SO Iare base of the pedestal.
The glass across the relic, at the foot
of the shaft, is worn with the kisses of
devotees. Flowers and missives, ad-
dressed to st. Anne, lie beneath the
statue. Behind the figure of the saint
extends the white marble artar-railing,
on which are Sculptured in baS-reiief,
emblematic groups. a great quadrant
OF carrdra, with gold decorations and
banks of natural flowers, over-spans
the central altar. On either wall are
immense glass cases filed with watch
es. bracelets. rings, diamonds and other
jewels, teStifying to the gratitude of |
st. Anne's beneficiaries. a large gilded I!
hand. with the bone of the saint, en- |
cased in glass and inserted in the arm, /
stands to the left: and behind the white !
marble paEoply is a picture of st. /
Anne and the Virgin, receiving two |
pilgrims. This painting is by Lebrun /
and was the gift of the Marquis de
Tracy in 1866.