Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1915 — ROYAL MIRACLES DESCRIBED [ARTICLE]

ROYAL MIRACLES DESCRIBED

Old Book Recently Sold, Tells Tales of “Cures” by Touch of English Monarchs. London. —Among the interesting objects at the Red Cross sale at Christie’s was a curious volume containing the true and moving story of the miracles supposed to have been wrought by the “touch” of English sovereigns in general, and of Charles II in particular. The Merrie Monarch touched 90,798 patients, particulars as to whose cases are all recorded. James II “cured” 350 at one swoop. Queen Anne, it wfil be remembered, laid sovereign hands upon Dr. Samuel Johnson for scrofula.