Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-09-25
MONK HAS MIRACULOUS POWER.
Nevertheless His Own Father Calls
for County Physician.

says:
or recent years there has been a
great tendency to believe in faith
healing, disguised, Of course, under
various M
The faith Of the Christian Scien-
fist. for instance, cannot be shaken,
and If the following evidence Is to
be believed it would cen that the
age OF miracles Is not past.
From all parts of Ireland people
afflicted with a variety of diseases
are now focking to see Brother"
Moore, Of Navan, who, Invariably
dressed in a white habit, has so i'm
pressed the people that they believe
he can cure them of almost anything,
One Of our representatives, who
has conversed with many of the men
and women who have been to Bro
ther' Moore, declares that they have
the greatest confidence in his powers
Of healing.
Many persons l have spoken to,
says our representative, declare
most emphatically that this so-called
miracle worker" has removed or as
suaged their ills. Some very aston
ishing claims are being made in sup
port Of Brother" Moore, or, to give
him the full name by which he is
known, Brother" Mary Aloysius
Moore. One oma told me he had
restored the sight Of the left eye of
a girl named Annie Moore. Several
people were prepared to vouch for
the truth of Brother" Moore's
claim that he had cured a child
named Dowdall, Of Knockimber, near
Navan, of deafness, while troubles Of
other persons have, it is said, disap-
peared under his magic influence. A
very humble matched cottage was
pointed out to me as Brother"
Moore's dwelling. found him at
home, and he consented, unwillingly
at first, to ak to me.
Brother" Moore is very young,
indeed little more than a boy, and his
light, curly and much rufied locks
add to the extreme y%outhfulness of
his appearance.
His habit-white with a black
outer robe and hood-suggests some
what OF the Dominicans, but the
black robe has an additional narrow
hem of pale blue. He could not tell
me how many persons he claims to
have cured.
"Therc ere SO rNanv." rG SAIL
hundreds probably. FROM murIans
-Uil might very day tbcy non,c 10
'le, MoJa>cs Bring thor Cnll0iav.
uth@re Hhlgl5 or ia tNenS &c lmpoe.
from far and near.
Look at that big trunk; it Is full
OF letters, and | cannot possibly an
swer every n Of them, though /
try my best to do what l can for
every n who applies"
While we were speaking we we're
interrupted several times by knocks
at the door. In each case it was
some one who wished to be cured"
AS | left a woman carrying a baby
clutched the arm of the "brother''
II asked him to do Something for
her little one" who was suffering
rom ringworm on the cheek.
He stroked the child's arm affec-
~tionately, and asked the mother to
bring it back later on.
There is no lack of testimony as
to Brother" Moore's cures in the
past.
A Mrs. Gibney, Of Navan, Is quite
convinced hat 1.-The MONK as he is
often called, had effected a complete
cure in her case. Eleven years ago,
h told me, she broke her ankle, and
every day it caused her pain, and she
was unable to walk up and down
stairs without great suffering. Now
the pain is gone and she can walk
quite freely.
1t had been suggested hat she
should have the ankle broken again
and reset, but "thc monk" she states,
merely rubbed it and touched it with
a relic. He then left her a bottle of
water in which the relic had been
placed for a moment. and told her to
battle her ankle with this water.
A very similar cure was said to
have been made in the case of Mrs.
Reilly, Of Flower Hill, Navan.
One woman is so grateful for the
cure she believes to have beer made
in her casc that she is giving BRO