THE MARTYRS OF PARIS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 173, 21 July 1876, Page 8

THE MARTYRS OF PARIS.

The ' Illustrated Monitor :' gives the following letter from a Priest residing in Paris, to another living in Laval : — " A sudden cure took place here last Wednesday at the altar of our Martyrs. Mdlle. de Eis, a very pious girl, aged 20 years, had been suffering for more than a year,from a violent disease, causing one of her legs to be completely bent, so, in order to keep it straight, the doctors made use of an appliance which, though it partly effected its purpose, caused the poor girl intense paim Mdlle. de Eis at length, finding that her cure was not likely to be wrought by any earthly means, begged to make a novena to our Martyrs, fully convinced she would be cured if she were carried to the tomb of the Fathers. A novena of 4 Masses and prayers was begun, and on Wednesday, at ten o'clock, the sick girl arrived ; she was in her bed, which was borne by two litter-bearers, and was accompanied by two Infirmarian Sisters her mother and father; the former a good Christian, the latter a Freethinker. During the Mass Mdlle. de Eis suffered great pain, which lasted until the Communion, when she received our Divine Lord, and.offered herself resignedly to Him. Then it was that her sufferings gradually abated, and soon after she felt able to move the bandaged leg, and uttered in a low voice, ' I am cured,' which words were heard by her friends around her, and P. Martignan at that moment descending from the altar. The young girl was then carried to the parlor, where only a few persons were admitted to examine the limb, now quite flexible and free from pain. She expressed a wish to get up and walk about, which her father would »ot permit, and he ordered the litter-bearers to convey her back to the house. On arriving there Dr. Desormeaux was summoned, and after examining the leg, pronounced her cure incontestable ; the second doctor, a Freethinker, also came in, and he said that the imagination had re-acted upon the nervous system, and that when the excitement would subside, the malady would return, therefore, in prudence she should not be permitted|to leave her bed. Thiß latter advice the father faithfully carried out, and only to-day Mdlle. de Eis has been permitted to rise. She feels no pain whatever, but the leg is extremely weak, and not able to BUBtain the weight of the body. It i s thought that another novena will complete the cure thus marvellously effected, the sight of which filled those who were witnesses.of it with deep .gratitude and emotion."