Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1906 — PILGRIMS GO TO HOLY HILL [ARTICLE]

PILGRIMS GO TO HOLY HILL

Favorable Weather Attract* Mora Than 2,000 Person*, Mostly from Wisconsin Citie*. .. . ♦ South Germantown, Wis., Aug. 16.—* Over 100 pilgrims from Chicago and a few other Illinois towns attended the feast of Assumption at Holy Hill, the noted Catholic shrine of worship, seven miles from Hartford. They came on two special coaches and immediately were taken out to the shrine In order to be on hand at sunrise to make the stations of the cross, a distance of 1,863 feet, which they devoutly performed, going to early mass at 6 o’clock. The favorable weather attracted some 2,000 pilgrims, some of whom came from Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Beaver Dam, Appleton, and other cities. Some cripples and Invalids were present to find help on account of the curative attributes of the place. Many of those who were sick and could not come sent friends to get water from the grotto of the Lady of Lourdes on the summit, which ' was blessed by the priests and taken home. Flowers and other insignia also received the benediction.