The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-26
CURED BY
RELIC OF
ST. anne.
CrIpp|es Leave Their Clutches
Behind Them and Walk
From the Shrine.

New York, July 26--At the Church oi
st. Jean Daptiste. In East Seventy Il
street, near Third avenue. where there
Is novena In progress and the relic OF
ST. Anne is on exhibition, several remark,
able cures yesterday were reported 10y
Father Nolin and the other priests.
Father Nolin said that woman OF
twenty-five years. striklngly beautiful
had been attending the shrine Of ST.
Anne for several days She was suffering
from hip disease and supported herself
on crutches. Yesterday she left her crut-
ches at the shrine ana said she felt en-
tirely cured. She refused to give her
name ana address.
Another woman, OF middle age, also
suffering with hip disease, had been an
attendant, the priest said, since the be-
ginning OF the noyena. She was touched
with the relic yesterday and left her
crutch at the shrine. saying that she
was entirely cured. She also refused TO
give her name for publication.
Lawrence Joyce, three years old who
lives at No. 405 East 1l7th street was car
ried 10 the altar I'm the arms OF his moth
er. lie had been suffering from paralysis
two years. Since the novena was begun
the lad has been a regular attendant at
the shrine. Father Roy touched him with
the relic yesterday. and, after reciting
some prayers, told the mother 10 remove
the braces from the lads body. She did
so, and young Joyce. the priests say
walked from the altar down the aisle
unsssisted.
Another cure reported by the priests
was that of James Kilkenny. eight years
old. of No. 1878 Madison avenue. Five
years ago the boy fell down stairs and
broke his hip. Daily since the novena
was begun the lad has been rubbed with
therelic. Yesterday when Err Roy touched
him with the bone of st. Anne he cried
out that he did not want the braces on.
and upon his mother removing them the
lad walked
Mrs. Mary Dunphy, OF No 100 Nevins
street, Brooklyn. carried TO the shrine her
eight-year-old daughter Annie. who has
been suffering from hip disease for three
years. There was large crowd OF wor-
shippers In the church at the time and
when the child walked through the church
after she had been touched with the relic
a murmur OF thanks arose.
Johanna Bischoff. OF No. lS3 West Sixty
third street. was running about the neigh
oorhood without her crutches last evening
FOR the first time in eleven years, as the
result OF two visits 10 the shrine of st
Anne. She is sixteen years old. and ever
since she was five she has been sufferer
rom hip disase. On Tuesday she read
II the cures wrought at st. Jean Ban
iste's and went TO the shrine 10 be touch |
'd by the relic. Yesterday she went |
gain. and was able 10 leave her crutches |
Il the shrine and go home without them
II am certainly WELL" she said. "and |
an get about like other girls now. IL was /
u. Anne who did IL. and ! can't tell you
low happy / am"
Dennis Lynch n lad whose legs are
visited and who has gone on crutches for
tx years, has been constant attendant
Z the novena. Yesterday he left his
rutches at the shrine, and while he is
cry lame he Is able to get along with
ut them. He lives at No. South Third
treet. Brooklyn.
Marguerite Ryan eleven years old. OF
10. 42S w. Thirty-first street, who has had
stin knee Joint for seven years. .yester-
ay recovered the use OF the joint and her
iother when seen last evening. said she
expected that her child would be entirely
ell by the time the novena ended on
riday
The fathers report that their were sew
raj other remarkable cures affected but
lat many left the church without giving
leir names