The San Francisco call., 1908-10-18

I injured; a woman. AurIie Huprelle.
cured IS years ago, when in the last
stages Of consumption; Madame Fran
co.'s, who nine years ago was cured OF
cancer, and many others.
CURES AT LoURDEs
One of the pilgrims who visited the
bureau of certification this year was
the Rev. Robert Hugh Benson, the
well known English convert and writer.
son OF the late Anglican archbishop of
Canterbury. Among the important
cures reported during August we note
the following:
A Norman peasant from Falafse Al
phonse Alliaume. was badly wounded
last year by a bull. On SATURDAY morn
ing, August %, the wound in the stom-
ach from which he suffered, was dis
charging copiously; a few hours later.
when he had bathed in the fountain. IL
was found to be completely healed The
patient, who during whole year had
swallowed only liquid, asked for sau-
sages, and ate them with relish
Euphrasie Bose had tumors on both
knees, and waSa brought to the grotto
on stretcher.~ She was cured during
the procession; her wounds are healed
and she can walk freely The doctor
who attended her observed when she
lett Clermont-Ferrand or Lourdes:
We'll. if you are cured. I shall be
Obliged to believe in miracles"
Another woman, Nine. Bossignol,
was suffering from an ulcer in her
stomach, and for months had touched
no solid food; she. too. was cured and
is doing well. So is Mile. Durand, a
Partisan, who was carried to Lourdes
in an osier cradle, being unable to
walk. owing to assesses on her hip
and the stiffness of one knee.
boy of u, Roger Gaudry, was
cured of paralysis; a little girl, Mar
guerite Van Delaliegle, who was born
with a club foot and could only hop,
now puts her foot to the ground and
walks easily And so the list goes on.
Thirty striking and well authentf-
Gated cures are said to have taken
place; but DIR. Boissario continues his
usual custom OF waiting some months
before certifying to their apparent su-
pernatural character.
POPE RECEIVES SAILORS
Plus X recently received in audience
20 sailors from the American battle
ships Maine and Alabama, then at Ma
pies. Each of the men received from
him medal
Probably very few are aware of the
large percentage of Catholics in our
navy. Out of 1000 men who OBJ
tanned shore leave when the Atlantic
fleet was at Sydney, n. S. w.
1.200. including 134 officers pro-
claimed their religious belief by at
tending high mass at the cathedral A
Boston paper recently referred to the
fact that, while Catholics are estimated
constituting a seventh of our en-
tire population, they constitute more
than a fourth OF the feet now circlfng
the globe.
The Catholic university of Paris
started the story now going the rounds
that Edward VII used his good offices
with the French government to stop
the present religious persecution in
France, and that he required a formal
guarantee that the churches in France
should not be closed as a sine qua non
OF the entente cordiale recently estab-
lished with that country. The editor
of Ronao, noted for his accuracy and
correctness as to facts. thinks there IS
some reason TO believe that the story
is true. 1t is known that at one time
the French government had decided to
devise clauses of the miscalled separ-
alton law which would in short time
have turned all the churches in France
over to secular uses.