rofound sleep, from which
she shall soon awaken to relate with smiles on her lips how she
had seen the infant Jesus, having at his side a venerable servant
of God, clad in the habit of the order of St. Augustin. She adds
that she feels herself cured, but very weak, and she asks for a
cup of broth to give her strength. The broth is given, to her,
although the request is regarded as coming from one in the last
agitation of dying; but the sick girl, who had felt the action of
grace, and who knew well that she was cured, rises, throws off all
the blisters, of which not a trace was left on her body, and on
the following day repaired to the church of Ara Coeli, at more than
half a league distant, to thank the Santo Bambino and the servant
of God, who had restored her to life and health. You may easily
comprehend the sensation that a fact of this kind must have
produced upon a population so full of faith, especially on the eve
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