Show J C RESTORED TO AGED BLIND WOMAN J AS SUE II KISSES WRIST RIST BONES BONS OF ST. ST ANNE AN fl 1 NEW W YORK July 19 19 Communicants cants of the Church of Jean Baptiste in West Vest Seventy sixth Seventy sixth street are ale firmly firm firmly ly Iy convinced ed that a wonderful l miracle has bas been performed through h the agency of the wrist bones of St. St Anne Several Sev Sov- eral of the parishioners report that they saw the sight restored to a a. woman who had been blind for twelve years The Novina held annually in prepa prepa- ration for the feast day of St. St Anne which occurs a week from tomorrow began on Saturday in this church which holds as relics of St. St Anne several of her wrist bones These are kept in a glass covered silver bowl in the shrine at all aU times except during the Novina when the little bowl is brought forth and the thousands of believers ers who throng the church are permitted to kiss it and pray to St St. Anne for deliverance de de- de liverance from their physical ailments and mental woes Mrs l Mary Brown of Willis avenue avenue ave ave- nu nue nue was pr praying ying at the altar when two altar boys led in an aged blind woman The blind woman oman had prayed only a afew afew afew few minutes when the prie priest t extended to her the relics of St. St Anne and she kissed hissed the silver receptacle Then sud sud- denv she cried out loud I see sec you Oh good St St. Anne I Ise Isee Isee se see vou you Mrs Irs Brown led the woman to a pew thinking that perhaps her ller devotion bad had overcome her but there it was observed observed ob ob- ob served that the aged womans woman's eyes were open and that she could see plainly She cried with joy as she declared she could see as when she was a young girl She said her name was Mrs Irs Purcell Purcell Pur Pur- cell that she lived in Amsterdam avenue avenue ave ave- nue and that she had bad buried twelve children Excited communicants gathered about the joyful woman and while many attest attest at at- test the fact that she was blind when she sIlo entered the church and that she was made to see none in the excitement excitement excite ment thought to obtain her full name and address Priests are seeking her today |