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of the ceremony of the 21st, which will put solemnly upon the
altar, in placing him among the blest, the venerable Father
Clavier, of the Society of Jesus, and at the close of the
expiatory _triduo_ which has been celebrated at Saint Andre della
Valle in reparation of a sacrilegious outrage committed against
the Madonna du Vicolo dell’ Abate Luigi.’"
Of course the girl never was ill at all.
Miraculous agencies, it appears, have been applied to by the highest
powers at Rome, with the purpose which actuates the old ladies who study
Zadkiel. A young peasant girl living at Sezza, near the Neapolitan
frontier, has been for some time in a kind of ecstatic, or, as
non-believers in miracles would call it, magnetic state, and in that part
of the province of Marittima and Campagna, is already known under the
denomination of St. Catherine. Her fame seems to have originated in a
miracle which she worked some time ago on the person of an old woman, who
came to her in great distress because her daughter had died in childbed,
leaving the grandmother of the infant without pecuniary means for its
support. "St. Catherine" is said to have directed the old woman to suckle
the baby herself, assuring her that, before she reached home, she would
find herself in a condition to do so—a direction which the venerable
applicant strictly obeyed, and found her hopes realized! Other
supernatural answers were subsequently given by the saint to various
applications of the neighboring peasantry, and stolen fowls and stray
cattle were recovered by her indications. But the concourse of people at
last grew so great that that the ecclesiastical authorities interfered in
behalf of the sybil, whom they placed in safety and repose within the
walls of a convent, prohibiting, at the same time, any one from coming to
consult her without the express permission of the bishop:—
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