Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1911 — MARKED BY A MIRACLE [ARTICLE]

MARKED BY A MIRACLE

Extraordinary excitement has been caused among the peasants in the neighborhood of Kiltimagh, County Mayo, this week, by a series of what are described as miraculous happenings at the convent there, a Dublin correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat writes. Among the children who are being educated by the good nuns of Kiltimagh is a girl of thirteen, who has been an inmate of the convent school for the last three or four years. She is describee as extremely docile and affectionate and more than usually religious. A few nights ago one of the nuns was awakened by fearful screams from the dormitory where the girl slept, and on going to her she was told that the child had had a terrible dream, in which she saw Christ on the cross-and a soldier driving a lance into his side. The nun comforted her and she went to Eleep, but in the morning she complained that her arm was sore and on examination it was found to be marked with a cross in red and underneath the cross were the letters “1. H. S.” A few days later a crown of thorns appeared below the cross tend the letters “I N. R. I.” and these were followed by the appearance of * a chalice surmounted by a host In red. The marks have been examined by the parish priest. Rev. Father O’Hara, and by Dr. Madden of Kiltimagh, who vouch for their being there, but decline to express any opinion as to their cause. It is said that during the doctor's exasaination the stigmata bled freely. The nuns maintain stoutly that the child had no opportunity of Inflicting the Injuries, if injuries they be, on herself, and I understand arrangements are being made for a thorough Investigation of the mystery by a committee of ecclesiastics and medical men. Another case illustrating in another way the credulity which still Is to be found In some parts of Ireland has just come to light by the prosecution at Granard of an Australian who had been traveling the country extracting money—not teeth—from country people who are afflicted with toothache. Thomas Kiernan raid that the man told him he ronld cure him by extracting the nerves of his teeth and that when he consented to ijndergo the treatment the man tcok an instrument like a long needle, picked at his teeth awhile and then laid what looked like a little white caterpillar on Lis sleeve, saying this was the nerve and that he would never suffer from toothacn# again. .v-<» Of course.be did suffer, and when he went tr a medical man for relief and told bts story be learned how he bad been swindled.