The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-08-10
THE GOOD ST. ANNE.
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were all here. A priest with stentoran voice in
toned prayers to st. Anne, and away up the
hillside where we happened to be when the process
sion began to issue from the church, heard like
the voice of another John, the cry of "Bonne
Sainte Anne" and the answer from the moving
masses, "Priez pour nous" At the end of the line
came priests richly vested carrying the relics of
st. Anne in the magnificent reliquary; two relays
in attendance, to relieve the other. Last
of all came His Grace the Archbishop of Quebec,
a preate of dignifed bearing more than ordinary
and whose purple robes made him conspicuous
wheTesoever he moved
In the evening again came Benedction, again
the sermons, again the tones of the fine organ as
sisted by the Palestrini society of Quebec; again
the lights made plain every nook and niche, again
the rays round ST. Anne vanished, and the lights
the High Altar flashed forth; then the Solemn
BenedictiOn over the hushed multitude who never
again in that spot should thus assemble together.
a SCALA SANTA" IN THE NEW WORLD.
No one visited st. Anne without ascending the
Scala Santa. These steps within a very beau
tiful chapel built upon hill the site of the
old presbytery The steps in imitation of those
assembled by our Lord in the palace of ontius Pr
late; the faithful ascend them their knees. This
difficult and in truth it is not easy, but none
are deferred on this account; some repeat the de-
votlon several times on the day.
Above the little cemetery, where lie those VINO
for the past three centuries have given up their
souls to their Maker in the little village, are erect
ed a set of crosses, each with little kneeling
bench at its foot, and at the summit large cross
with the figure of the crucifed Savior largely out
lined. These are the stations by the exercise of
which great indulgence is obtained. st. Annes
well the water from spring in the vicinity,
through which many pains have been ameliorated
or completely banished is favOrite resort Of the
traveller to Beaupre. The water is taken away in
bottles bought for the purpose.
The principal relics are part of the finger
and wrist bones of the dear saint; there is also a
fragment of rock from the room in which she
lived at Jerusalem. To enumerate all the treas
ures of St Annes and to describe them would take
small volume Among them, however is sup
erb chasube given by Anne of Austria, mother of
Louis XIV, father of New France.
The cures that have been going at St. Annes
for over 800 years have been the subject of much
comment.
This year St. Anne was not unmindful of those
who to her for aid The case of an Indian
was one that came within my own personal knowl-
edge On nearing the church on the afternoon of
the eve OF the feast L group in front of the
door. 1t was easy to see by the excited looks of
those gathered that something out of the common
had taken place, and it was not long before was
told miracle had occurred
In the center of the group stood an Indian
apparently under mit ie age and with very intel
ligent cast of countenance. He was standing I'M
aided though one foot was enveloped in bandages
as though he suffered from some gr1eVouS wound
or disease. On questioning him he said that he
had just been cured. His story was that he had
come from Maine for the purpose of asking the
assistance of St Anne; that for eighteen months
the manned foot had not touched the floor. being
prey to acute erysipelas, that few minutes be-
fore he had been cured; he had used crutch on
entering the church, but on leaving it he had left
the crutch behind him. This was substantially his
statement. On asking him how he knew he was
being cured he seemed unable to express himself.
but light came into his eye and seemed to ilum
inc his face. Seeing his inability to express an an
swer in words, said to him: 'You can't tell. but
you know, don't you?" He at once smiled his ac
quiescence; next day he was seen walking up the
aisles of the church, the once sick foot encasad
in the long discarded boot
Another instance was that of Daniel Hoey.
little boy about years of age He had been in
jured when Is months old, and had suffered from
year ago his mother heard of ST. Anne's and un
an apparently hopeless case of spinal disease.
daunted by distance or expense-their home is in
Pennsylvania-she took her two youngest children.
one of whom was the little boy Daniel and set ont
for the shrne before they left the child was much
improved This year she brought him again; now
he is so much benefited that the support without
which he was before herless was taken off and
now hangs memorial of his cure on the al
tar. While the mother was telling his story the
little lad jumping around with all the vivavcity
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