The Union de l' Quest publishes the following letter, addressed
to it by IL Similien, Professor of Mathematics at the School of Arts of Angers. "In your number of the 16th ultimo, you announce from a letter which I had sent to you, that some surprising facts had occurred on the holy moun- tain of La Salette on the 1st of July, the eve of the fête of the Visita- tion of the Virgin. I now send you the details. A young pupil at the religious establishment of the Visitation at Valence, who had been for three months completely blind from an attack of gutta serene, arrived at La Salette on the lst of July, in company with some sisters of the commu- nity. The extreme fatigue which she had undergone in order to reach the summit of the mountain, at the place of the apparition, caused some anxiety to be felt that she could not remain fasting until the conclusion of the mass, which had not yet commenced; and the Abbe Sibilla, one of the missionaries of La Salette, was requested to administer the sacrament to her before the service began. She had scarcely received the sacred wafer, when, impelled by a sudden inspiration, she raised her head and exclaimed, 'Mt: bonne mere, je vous vois.' She had, in fact, her eyes fixed on a statue of the Virgin, which she saw as clearly as any one present. For more than an hour she remained plunged in an eestacy of gratitude and love, and afterwards retired from the place without requinng the assistance of those who had accompanied her. At the same moment, a woman from Gap, nearly sixty years of age, who for the last nineteen years bad not had the use of her right arm in consequence of a dislocation, suddenly felt it restored to its original state, and,. swinging round the once paralyzed limb, she exclaimed in a transport of joy and gratitude, 'And I also am cured !' A third cure, although not instantaneous, is not the less striking. Another woman, known in the country for many years as being paralytic, could not ascend the mountain but with the greatest difficulty, and with the aid of crutches. On the first day of the neuvaine, that of her arrival, she felt a sensation as if life was coming. into her legs, which had been for so long dead ; this feeling went on increasing ; and the last day of the neuvaine, after having received the communion, she went without any assistance to the cross of the Assumption, where she hung up her crutches. She also was cured!"
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