MODERN MIRACLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 18, 22 September 1913, Page 5

MODERN MIRACLES.

THE LOURDES PILGRIMAGE

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, September 21.

The Trish pilgrims to Lourdes brought back wonderful stories of cures. A girl who left Dublin paralysed, on her return walked off the gangway of the steamer unhelped. The cure has made a profound impression on the Catholic community in Ireland.

The pilgrimage to Lourdes set in the week before last, and on Wednesday 3,500 Irish pigrims passed through London on their way to the French town. Among them were many invalids, who hoped to be cured at the famous spring, and with them were several doctors and 22 nurses. Lourdes is in the Pyrenees. The story attaching to the place is that the Virgin Mary appeared at noon on February 11, 1858, to a poor girl named Bernadette Soubirous, the apparitions being 17 times repeated during the ensuing six months. Then a spring rose at the same spot, the water being endowed with miraculous propertics, and many miracles were reported. Crowds nocked to the place, and year by year people have gone there in increasing numbers, bathing or washing in the waters.