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Show ?i OFQ ADF 'jlmCo AKt RFPftBTFP EtLrUKILu Cripples at Shrines at Feast of St. Anne in Chicago Chicago. July '21. A procession of 2.WH) pllgiims. whose homos are scattered scat-tered from ocean to ocean, among J them some who came on crutches, la wheel chairs and by train, marked I the close last night of the feast of i St. Anne, which has been in progress j lor nine days at St. Anne's church. J t-'iniultnrii'Ously, occurred the pro- 1 ecsilon'nf lighted candles and tho j end ot the Novcna at Si. Anne. Ills., j tho only other shrine in the United SLitos pos"!-s'-ig the sacred relics. I At th latter place nearly five thous- and persons marched In procession, j Manv wonderful cures are reported at both shrines: the lame and the halt raid they were made to walk; the paralyzed claimed they were restored, re-stored, and the blind asserted they were made to see. Eighteen cures were announced at St. Anne's. Chicago. Inst night. Relics of St. Anno in the two bhrlne.s were secured from the shrine of St. Anne dc eBaupre. Canada The pilgrimages are- held annually and attract afflifted persons from nearly every state in the union. |