Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-15
A MIRACLE IN IOWA
The Incident May Be Used in
the Movement to CanoniZe
Pope Plus TX
MARVELLOUS CURE is WROUGHT
Medal Which the Pope Had Blessed Is
Placed About ChiId's Neck and With
Uttering of Prayer Complete Cure
Is lffected-consumptive Also Cured
With the Relic.
.peeial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Sioux City, Jan. 15.-Declaring be-
fore God and man, his testimony sup
ported by that of two other witnesses,
to marvellous cures that, through
medal given him by the late Pope Plus
TX, were effected, Alphonse Gadbois,
51S Main street, this city, has filed at
fidavits with Bishop Garrigan, which
will be forwarded to the Roman Curia
at an early date, which bear witness
to his sanctity and integrity of life, and
now on foot to canonize Pope Plus a
saint.
He received this medal when he was
a volunteer corporal in the Sixth COM
pany, Fourth battalion, of the Ponti-
fical Zouaves regiment, in Rome from
1868 to 1870. The potency Of the sa-
cred souvenir was increased by the
prayerful intercession Of the holy pom
tiff. and Mr.. Gadbois asserts that his
3-year-old daughter was made to walk
and woman sick unto death with
consumption rose from her bed we'll
woman
Takes Evidence to Bishops.
Unsolicited, after years of thought
over the matter, this modest workman
wendell his way to Bishop Garrigan
this week and laying before him the
evidence asked to be allowed to join
in the movement going on throughout
the Catholic world for the cononizing
of Pope Plus TX. He wanted to add
his testimony and that of other living
witnesses in the form of affidavits,
setting forth the facts of what he be-
lieves to have been supernatural cures.
In the spring following the death
of Pope Plus TX. Alphonse Gadbois,
with his wife and family, was living
on a farm eight miles from Sioux City
on the Big Sioux river on the Iowa
side. One day their little daughter,
Mary Antoinette Alice, then years
of age, now Mrs. John Bernard of An
thon, Ia, while jumping from small
shed to some straw on the ground be-
low, with her brother, now DIR. Arthur
q. Gadbois of Humphrey, Neb., acct
dentally sprained her foot so badly as
to be unable to rest it upon the floor.
Three days afterward, MIR. Gadbois
said to his wife:
eff our little daughter is not better
when l come from the field at noon,
we will hitch up the team and take
her to doctor in Sioux City"
First Marvellous Cure.
He went to the field to SOW his grain.
During the forenoon, Arsenia Allard
Chicoine, sister of Mrs. Gadbois, know
ing of the medal which the pope had
given her brother-in-law, While in
Rome, said to her sister:
Sara, why don't you give her that
little medal, which the holy father gave
Alphonse, and have her say little
prayer?"
The medal was brought forth, hung
ABOUT the child's neck and the little
tot told to repeat this simple PRAYER:
"Holy Piux TX, please heal by foot.
am the child of one Of your Zouaves."
The little child did repeat the pray
er. and according to the sworn testi-
mony of these three living witnesses,
the little girl was almost instantly cur
ed. and was soon romping about the
house as though she had never been in
iured. 1t was not the child's falth' II
;s said hit the faith of the mother.