The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-06-01

ago, nor is she q saint In the canon
ical sense, though it is quite possible
she may some day become so: only
little Irish girl who died in Cork,
February 2. 1908. aged four years, five
months and eight days. The facts of
her short career were so extraordi-
nary that the Bishop of Cork per-
mitted them to be debated to Rome,
and wrote letter giving them form
ally the weight of his authority, and
the Holy Father addressed an auto
graph reply to her schoolmates in
which he expressed the wish that
they may always keep as good al
their companion Nellie who was CALL
ed to heaven while still a child" Her
life has been since written in Italian
by priest attached to the Vatican,
and dedicated to Pope Plus x. by the
express permission of His Holiness:
and "A Priest of the Diocese of Cork"
has given charming account of her
in a penny brochure of some 100000
words under the title. Little Nellie
Of Holy God" Cork. Guy and co.,,
which has the exceptional merit Of
letting the story tell itself.
Nellie Organ or Horgan was born
Of poor but truly Irish parents August
"a. 1903. When she was three years
old her sanity mother died. and the
four children were placed with char
table institutions in Cork. Nellie, with
her sister, going to st. F'inbarr's IN
dustrial School, conducted by the
Sisters of the Good Shepherd. She
was sickly from the first, an Inherit
ance from her mothers disease. tub
erculosia, and was constant sufferer
from other painful maladies, but she
was always cheerful, insisted on shar-
ing with others whatever was offered
her, and never complained after she
had become acquainted, when little
over three, with "the story of Holy
God"
Seeing a statue of the Infant of
Prague on an altar in the inf1rmary
she asked what it was, and being told
it was an image of the Child Jesus,
she wanted to know His whole story.
She then called Him holy Cod" and
spoke Of Him by no other name there
after. She would ask Him for many
things, chiefly for others, but one day
she was rebuked by the nurse for
asking the globe in the hands Of the
Childs statue in exchange for her
"little shoeses." "Oh." she replied
HE can give them. If He likes" In
deed, it appears she had special war
rant for thinking SO from the many
instances related of her personal re-
lations with the Child Jesus and the
unusual favors she received from Him,
When she made the Way of the Cross
in her nurses arms, Nellie became
agitated at the Cruciflxion, and want
ed to know "why are they hurting
Him." and why ':Holy God" allows
them. On hearing the explanation
she burst into tears, crying between
sobs: Poor Holy God!" She used
the same expression whenever her
eyes fell on the Cruciflx.
She quickly grasped the mystery OF
the Real Presence in the Tabernacle
or, as she put it, why Holy God was
SHUT up in that little house." and
was quite glad that He was not
"squeezeded." Soon her searching
questions about religious mysteries
and practices exhausted the informa.
ton of the nurse. who had not beer
long Catholic and who confesse.
that Nellie cured her Of many resi-.
dual antipathies against Catholic
ways. The nurse, though usually 8
daily COMMUNICATE, sometimes failed
to receive, and on such occasions Mel.
lie. informed by some spiritual in.
stinct, would fix reproachful eyes up.
on her saying: you didn't get GIol,
God today" Once she thought Nellie
was dying and said so. but the chile
replied: mo; Holy God says I'm mo-
good enough yet" When questioned
she said Holy God did come ant
stand there" and her clear descrip.
tion did not correspond with the pic.
ture she had known.
She was soon to die. and her spir
itual perception was so extraordinar,
that the Bishop, unasked. admins
tered to her Confirmation. She toll
him: II am Holy Gods little soldie
now" She then began to have a,
Unsuitable desire for Holy Commun
ion. She knew instinctively. though
there was no human means Of he
knowing it, when the Blessed Sacra
ment was exposed. and would cry
Holy God is not in the lookup to-