was wrought in the United States.
On September 20, 1866, Miss Mary Wilson arrived at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Driven from her home in Canada by her Protestant parents, who were displeased on account of her conversion, she sought refuge as a postulant in the convent at Grand Coteau.
After a month of preparation, and on the eve of her reception among the novices, she was suddenly seized with a violent sickness. At last, it became evident that there was no hope of recovery by natural means.
A novena was at once begun in honor of blessed John Berchmans. On December 14, the last day of the novena, the condition of the patient was most pitiable. For 40 days, she had not taken an ounce of food. She took only a little tea or coffee, and the last eight days she had not been able to take even this.
She was expected to die at any moment. Her limbs were cold and contracted, her mouth and tongue were raw, and covered with clots of black blood. With the greatest difficulty, the Holy Viaticum was administered, by giving her a small piece of the host.
All the Sisters then retired to hear Mass, except the infirmarian, who seeing the patient calm, left her for a moment to attend the sick in the adjoining room. In less than one hour after the reception of the Viaticum, the patient was entirely cured, restored to health, as she said... by St. John Berchmans, who appeared to her.
Every symptom of the disease had passed away, and the next day she was going through the ordinary duty of community life - she would have done so on the day of her cure, but the Mother Superior thought it more prudent for her to remain in bed.
The two doctors who attended her attributed her cure to supernatural agency for, they said, she was beyond the reach of natural remedies. The entire community and many visitors who had seen and known the patient attested the truth of the cure...
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