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| source title = Spiritual Scientist, v. 1, No. 21, January 28, 1875, p. 245
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Roman Catholic Spiritualism}} is a subject on which William Howitt write-in interesting paper, which appears in the Spiritual (London) Magazine for January. We make the following extracts of the phenomena:
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La Salette owes its celebrity to a much earlier prodigy—the visions of Mary Alacoque of the burning heart of Jesus; but at Lourdes it was a little girl to whom the blessed Virgin is said first to have revealed herself. So also here in Alsace she is said graciously to have appeared to four children. The place where this occurred is in the Vosges mountains, just where the former departments of the Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin divided, in a valley called the Weilerthal. There, on opposite hills, stand two ruined castles, Hoch-Konigsburg and Frankenburg. On the hill near the ruin of Frankenburg. on a Sunday night, July 7, 1872. four little girls from the village of Kruth, or as called by the French, Neubois, just below, went up to the ruin and into the adjoining wood, called Kastenholz, or Chestnut-wood. These little girls were Leonie and Odilie Martin, Maria Marcot anti Filomena Atzenberger. The youngest was seven, the eldest eleven years of age. They were gathering bilberries. These children had already heard much talk of the persecutions of the Catholics in their families. The sad, sanguinary events of the last war had also given to the children a quicker feeling and understanding of things. In the school of suffering, people speedily become acute, but at the same time magnanimous. These children talked together of the persecutions to which the people of Alsace would probably be subjected by the Prussians; and they declared they would rather lose their lives than abandon their religion. “Let us,” they said, “pray to the Mother of God to defend us.” As they wandered in the wood, they repeated the “Memoria,”—“Think of us, O sweetest Virgin.”
Suddenly the little Leonie, who had been stooping down, saw a White Lady, who, she said, wore a golden crown. on which stood a cross. On her breast, she also wore a cross, but that was black. She pointed to the apparition, and then all the children saw it, with the cross on the crown and the cross on the breast. The two youngest children were frightened, and ran away. Odilie Martin and Filomena Atzenberger remained. They now saw the White Lady threateningly wave a sword over the heads of soldier-forms which flocked beneath her. Then they too, were seized with terror, and ran home. There they related what they had seen, but got little credit for their story, least of all from their school-sister, a nun who was their school-mistress.
[Such is the opening account of this affair; other visits on subsequent days developed similar results.— {{Style S-Small capitals|Ed.}}]
The girl Bernadine, at Lourdes, declared that Indore the appearance of the Virgin there blew a wind; these children at Kruth also declared that every appearance of the White Lady was preceded by a wind. At Lourdes. too, the people saw first a light, and out of this light stepped forth the heavenly figure. When the apparition was about to ceases first the figure disappeared, and then the light died away. At Kruth, the same phenomena exactly took place. Spiritualists will recognize these as facts familiar to them; the cool wind, so often announcing the approach of spiritual presence, and the figure issuing from a mass of light, as in the case of Mr. Livermore’s spirit-wife. So far these circumstances give an air of reality to the phenomena. But it will be asked, how did these children know that it was the Madonna? How did they recognize their own mothers? From their earliest perception of anything at all. Catholic children are as familiar {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |3-125}}
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spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.08_1876-04-27.pdf|page=9|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 8, April 27, 1876, p. 93
spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.08_1876-04-27.pdf|page=9|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 8, April 27, 1876, p. 93
spiritual_scientist_v.01_n.21_1875-01-28.pdf|page=5|Spiritual Scientist, v. 1, No. 21, January 28, 1875, p. 245
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