Putnam patriot., 1929-11-21
PUTNAM PEOPLE JOIN PILGRIMS
 TO GRAVE OF REV. FIR. POWERS
Report Seeing Cures.-Crippies Walk.-Onloolxers Shout
 And Cry
Bring Back Earth And Jars of Water

Putnam has not gone unrepresented among the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to the grave ef the Rev. Patrick ] Powers in Maiden, Mas, from whence come reports of mira eulaus cures of the afflicted, Some of these citizens of Putnam report sec ing cures before their eyes One of them told Patriot representative that he had visited shrinea at St. Anne deBeaupre, Fskdale, and other places. and had never seen cure. He admitted he was skeuticai. When he saw crippled children get np and walk be saia that he could na longer doubt that their faith had effected q cure. What l saw believe. he said
 The visitors to the Maiden ceme- tery brought home dirt collected ae the sixty Yenr old grave; also water taken from nearby and touched to lhe spot where the fermer priest lies buried When neiehbars learned of this treasured possession they appear sd and requested q drop ol water, A pebble or bit of earth.
 Firat Pilgrims
 Among the first Putnam citizens to make the pilgrimage were Adelard Marion and Mrs Marion, @. Mar ion. Aleide Marion and Mrs Goudiee Rivard Mir Marion has been an in- valid and unable Co walk for the past nine vears Members of this party ieft Sunday morning On account of the crowds 1t being estimated that over 100000 wore there, they wers n8t able to get near the cemetery ith their automobile.
 r. O. Marion toid a Patriot report sr tbal he saw foar cures as be stood near the grave. All were children. People would shout as a cure was per fpcfed and the people would cry for iaY. ." cried myself', said Mir Mar ian. "Yon would if you had been here you couldn't help t Co see the happiness of those children and their parents"
 Standing within less than ten feet of littlo boy on erutches, whose legs were in iron braces. Mir. Marion said that h. saw the erutehes thrown away and the braces removed. The child walked a few steps and sat deWn. The little ones mother had brought with her q change of shoes for the child. She was SO nervous that she could hardly lace the shoes. When she did accomplish it the boy got Co his feet and walked of leaving his erutches behind
 Cripple straightens Up
 A second cure witnessed by Mr. Marion was of little boy about three years old. The child was bent and twisted from an attack of in- fantile paralysis. He saw him raise himself on his elbows and gradually take an upright position, something he was never able Co do before.
 Another child, who had never walked, took several steps and still another with a crippled arm, long paralyzed, lifted that arm. Mir. Marion said he saw all these cures as they occurred within a few feet of where he had pushed himself through the throng.
 Mir. Marion said he talked with the sexton of the cemetery who told him that he had noticed that the grave where the cures occurred always had green grass upon fl and in the win- ter the snow quickly melted from the ground He, the sexton. thought lit- tie of this until the recent first cure took place.
 When asked if Mrs. Adelafd Mar ion showed any improvement from her trip to Maiden, although she did not approach the grave. t being im- possible, Mir. Marion said "no" but that she showed no ill effects from the long journey and the excitement of getting into such q crowd. He said that when, heretofore. she has been nov ed shert distances. she has returned all tired out The trip Go Maiden, he said. did not tire her at all. 1t is planned to take Mrs. Marion back to Maiden at some future time when 1t is hoped that she may be able to get to Father Powers grave.
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