Faith Curer

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 27, 20 August 1892, Page 4

Faith Curer

Rev. Father Mollinger, R.C. priest physician, is said to be working wonders at Mount Troy, Pennsylvania, where he has erected a magnificent chapel in honour of his patron saint, St. Anthony,. On the anniversary of this saint, June 13, the place was crowded all day with the lame, the blind, and the deaf. There were fully 1000 persons present. Among those assembled wers pilgrims from all parts of the world, including Australia, represented by a young man who had suffered palsy from childhood. The afflicted bow before the shrine of St. Anthony, and then receive Father Mollinger's blessing, to which they attribute a sanitary influence that is miraculous. The latest news respecting this faith-healer is the rather startling item that cho reverend father, the taith-cure priest, died on the afternoon of June 15 from the effects of a surgical operation for a rupture ot the stomach. He was stricken while ministering to thous-ai-ds of fiii<jrini* who hed come to bo h aled. I'lj*- news spread consternation, especially among the incurables who saw in the father's death their last hope gone. Father .Vollingcr was over seventy years of jig-, and was reported to be worth two to tluee millions of dollars. It now nppears ho gave his patients cortaiu simple medicaments Ik; had prepared, and with most of them faith did the rest.