EMPIRE SELF-RAISING FLOUR
Rises Above all Others.
RECORD
The West AUSTRALIAN
20, 1913 PERTH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
IA
Pilgrimage to Lourdes King Edward
One of the Last Places Visited Some Impressions of a
by the late
World -Famed Shrine
1I.L.C.) BY T'lli-: IlerN. .1. D. CONNOLLY,
replica relig- long fight of marble stairs-a pleasing and art, inspired by in Rome. As on Scala Santa incredibly the an of in and Lourdes water, still further embellished. In these, the faithful ascend on their Among the many places of interest short space of time Fr. Crowley was ion, has the ricer Gave, at first knees, repeating a decade of the Itosvisited by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Con- able to offer a Mass of Thanksgiving front flows direction, then abrupt- :.ry on every step. Gaining the summit place northerly nolly and family, there is no Assumption. Tru- in a im- on the feast of the bending to the west. The ground one sees the strange traditional story which has made a more profound far- ly the age of miracles has not quite ly bank illussloping upwards from the right of the founding of pagan Rome pression on our tourists than the the departed ! with religious institutions, trated-Romulus and lielaus being dotted is the of one was famed sanctuary nestling in Mr, Conn°lky, who out boldly in the fore- suckled by a wolf-and in the soreFrench Pyrenees-the scene of those Fig privileged to carry the canopy in some standing oth-A's nestling in the shelter of St. Pechalground, have ihich Sacraevents Blessed miraculous the ground the majestic figure the the procession of the his hand raisof the hills. On the left hand bellied throne, a and on sent attention has seated the ter lenged and here founder of This ment at a recent pilgrimage, (including scenery is more rigged, ed in benediction-the criticism of modern unbelievers. fine views thro,Is some very ,,.ost proi:anent object in of the statuary scene stands The the on Rome. grotto, Christian renowned reproduced world Lady the splendid picture"Mrs. Connolly, the landscape-the graceful Gothic ughout is of dark, copper -coloured Blessed Our of Apparition the with which the piety of the dear this page), writes here with Basilica, terracotta, which lends itself wonderto a poor French peasant girl ispeople Cassie, Vera and I arrived under th-. Catholic world has crowned the rock fully to the realisation of the Via Catholic our of hearts to the f"nder the Basilica is at an inter- a pilgrimage from London ('rucis. Placed as they are throughout the world : and its Em- leadership of the Bishop of ::orth- of Illesabielle. of the crypt. and lower "harsh British the the of The people est for the that ainnton (England i, Dr. heating. pire is intensified by the fact :
on the River Gave
A View of Lourdes France is the beautifu: Church Grotto on the ground levelafternoon. At the end over the Grotto_ Under the each rock a on built Benediction is Basilica, which The patients receive individual pilgrimages had been registered since 1867. poor. the The above view shoes the for Hospital 5,297 cures on the right is the Lady to Bernardette was celebrated Over 4,000 genuine miraculous of the Rosary. The building of the Apparition of Oar million travellers per year. des 74ciences "Annales review of 1308, when the 50th anniversary The Lourdes railway station receives over one sceptial wrote in the pilgriws. Pilgrimage took place last at the Medical Faculty of Paris, numbering in all 4,919,000 years. Dr. I'. Richet, Professor that the facts :feted are authentic- The Wish National were accounted for in 50 cannnot but be convinced Physiques-"Unprejudiced minds week. pious elevation, which allows the I loly down rests the Church, of the dwell co the sorrowful to about spectators including the 1641, Between the latter and sorrowful of all Edward party numbered lung- stages of that most their late revered monarch,his death, a dozen invalids. The big English Rosary. pathway is well begin the two arros of the town rocky the end the journeys, about VII., almost on the eve of come spot, pilgrimage will approach to the Basilica. nigh trodden smooth by the many paid a visit u, that hallowed wat- of September, and the Irish National niticent rising on arches and gra-a feet which daily make the round. At arms reverently These A head, week. bared second with and, about the meet when on Pilgrimage Holy )lost converging, may be seen quiet, absorbnuniterring 4.0(.0), dually ched the procession of the pilgrimage, of the lloly all times French Church the chosen with been level has of the various pilgrimages They Lourdes groups sick. ed VA Sacrament. more, 21 left yesterday with then diverging once Internation their way round the Rosary, nett weeding young the of steadily scene cure-a She the as fact had one marvellous ascending sweep round at Stations, beads in hand, praying still and ; and this bath Congress the to Eucharistic and the girl. I saw her carried the Church, terminating earnestly for their own needs till inveet with added interest our the day we arrived and brought back cupola of spacious terrace on which the strcial intentions assigned for the to in last present we am I view of recovered. panoramic opens. From either side a sight to touch some Ca- apparently quite readers. It may be news to Perth to sending you the official paper with tbk crypt a flight of stairs leads to them. Surely this is devout pilof crypt the hardened-the Diocese roost the wonderthe a of is tholics priests the account in. Lourdes that I have the Basilica. Lord's footour Our of in one following least at grims, know that do not know The Way el the Grim rugged mounrecovery ful place. stern, this i,iraculovis be(.42 his steps anything with attributes the "Irish Caan incur- been so Oapressed Eucharistic con"Patricia" writes in or of earnest faith and from what was pronounced May of the tain slope, full fore-not even the Le calvaire, interon the one thing and tholic" only power glowthe intent to bow hope, able disease, is without doubt gress at "Malta. So matter Lourdes at Lourdes. of their souls. of Cross, saving yea Lady Our which necessary-the cession of ing the accounts may be and most impressive in a wonder('row grandest Station Father the azo Fourteenth years describe adequately Some eleven world. In scenic At the eye. Advantdown from read, they cannot created in the whole Catholic ful s-,:ertaele !:eets the dale, impressions and ley, of Highgate, came hill wonderful the natuSt. John advantage of wooded age has been taken of a great mounToodyay Newcastle( to the Some of the mind of a visitor. near the of Pantasaph. of heart that the in Subiaco. leads cleft of (;od Standise on the bridge which it closeby. but in ral and there in its dark shadow eminent niernbers of the to the grotto. and looking towards 14-ales, approaches the of its realistic tain, around proportions been placed. and in the heroic t.resents of has the Entombment seem which medical profe.ssiem Fe hope- the west, the and the tragic simplicity to figures, c.se his appropriate is this situabeauty, Strikingly Situaremarkable of Werth uronounced one equal. is no itself Bishop Gibin the extreme is grouping, it has less. Bat His Lordship faith in Our the landscape varied by 7: oantain its which domin- tion, and touching mountains rosaries which the on ted numerous of wiadby woods and ney, with characteristic is bad by a the sight o-lerrvise. and hill and ,rallev, made ate the Basilica access nature which scene Blessed Lad7 thought river-a a bottle of her sent the pale= EUffereT