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Interesting

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1958.

Stories From

Parts Of "The

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'Miracle' Shrine Draws Thousands Nizo

FEEL better every "I

time I come here," said little Valerie Potts, 12-year-old victim polio.

She asked Richeldis to build

Walsingham. an identical house at Walsing- ham "In honour of the year of the Incarnation" and promised to give Lady Bicheldis a sign that she might have no doubt as of to the truth of the vision.

"A spring of clear water sud- the denly burst forth and led plous Lady Ricbeldis and her chaplain to anume that near to that fountain the of Mary's humo

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She was standing, supported by crutchon and irons on her wasted legs, before a shrine in this little Norfolkshire village which has become known today as "England'a Nazareth."

700 years

reproduction

at Nazareth

A Norfolk Village Becomes

England's Nazareth

should be set up," the records when he decided to obliterate was present at the time,

said.

Holy House

Valerie was just one of many pilerims visiting the shrine at Walsingham whose history dates back to 1001---over

Lady Richeldis and the clergy before Szint Bernadette's grottu

became the world of the day decided that the holy at Lourdes

house at Walsingham should be centre of miracies of healing.

Pilgrims came in hundreds-built to the identical dimensions from the north of England, from of that at Nazareth, Wales and Scotland, and from the United States.

the

were

of

Just how the measurements obtained cannot be "Everybody feels better authenticated, but it seemed that's why they come," smiled certain that pligrins journeyed to IRtle Valerie as she took a few the Holy Land for the purpose. Lottering steps towards

The replica of the house shrine and its well of holy Nazareth was built at the spot eprung where

the apparition of the water reputed to have

the from the spot where a vision of Virgin Mary appeared and the Virgin Mary appeared

spring gushed forth.

dimensions The Estimated nearly 1,000 years ago.

were 23 feet 6 inches by 32 feet

Legends

Legends have

grown

Europe.

inches. 10

this "In the course of time

wander the up little chapel come the guardimship of the Canons of among the villagers about

priory "shrine of our Lady of Walsing-Saint Augustine and a

church and conventional build ham

But the local priest, the Rev.ings arose. A little church was of the high built to entirely cover the Holy A. Hope-Patten

It became a sanctuary has delved House. Anglican Church, into anelent archives and pub-jof world-wide fame, sought by

ished an authenticated version pilgrims fren ail over

To came nearly every crown- of its history,

ed head, the great and According to this version vision of the Virgin Mary ap-rich and poor, men and women at of every station in life. Even peared to a Lady Richeldis Walsingham one day in the your the sacrilegious King Henry the

Eighth made the pilgrimuge Walsingham," Patten records.

But in the 18th century, in common with Walshingham other holy places fell through the will of Henry the Eighth

1001.

She showed Lady Richeldis a model of her house at Nazareth where the Archangel Gabriel announced that she would be cone the Mother of Christ.

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the Catholic Church.

The little church and the holy house with were ruzed lu the ground.

"They were 90 utterly destroyed that even the exact site was lost and over the cen turies the holy house became a forgotten thing." Patten wald.

In 1921, however, young parish priest revived the legend of the holy house. He had booklets printed and distributed hia to attract churchgoers to remote parish,

Wilkin, a short time the Automobile Association and police had to with in- cope creased through narrow and leading to Wal- singham. The

Cont

100,000 pilgrims to the little "I come here whenever I can church and "holy house."

because I was cured here as a child and again when I was 21," | she said.

But Hope-Patton deprecated comparison with Saint Berna- dette's proito at Loader and said no records were kept officially of miraculous cures" - which

hundreds

pilgrima have claimed.

"Yet great masses of letters reach Hope-Patten from all over the world,

"Cure of lameness," "cure of a foot", "curo of a throat," firmed the first miracle of the restoration of sight," "cure of

modern shrine.

"Imagino how

tho great when

excavations amazement

floor disclosed a well-cobbled

four fect down. And ngain, few days later when digging up on apple tree, it was found that its roots were

em

well

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bedded in the head of a

Norman built of filst in perhaps, Saxon, construction, he sit

And as the excavations more cautiously proceeded the amaze- ment changed to awe when it was discovered that the footing of the building uncovered

Lord Norton, 72-year-old ex- regular soldier and war veteran, told how his wife was stricken with acute iritis which dusul fants said threatened her with eventual blindness,

Mary told me how she had had thelunate tever as an in- lant and came neze to dez thi

Poisoning

"Up to my tenth birthdy. I had not even walked. My heart had been affected by the fever. i had to be carried everywhere. 1 was eleven when my parents brought me to Walsingham. I got better and by the time I was 21 I was working and play- cancer," "cure of deafntest" unding normally," she said. aven "empo from the Jop- oness" were como samples of

miraculous"

claims which I examined.

Then she had a severe opern- Among the throng of peopletion on four impacted

wisdom from the industrial areas of England

teeth which resulted in blood and Wales wha

Her polsoning.

heart WOB Journeyed to Walsingham

she wus affected again and found a paw with a mhucle glory to tell.

dangerously ill.

"I wa sd 11 that I longed to to Walsingham. I go again don't know how I managed to make the journey by trak, came along and at one junction I missed my connection bed had 10 Walt hours. I thought would die there on the railway station. But I got te Walsing- ham and prayed and again I got

always better. Now "She was placed in a

hove com-here when I

holiday Surgeons from work," Mary Bartle said. of pletely dark room.

the of said her only hope iny in sur-

parish The priests of gical treatment. Without tell-doggedly aldeiracked the minele dizing her, I came to Walsingham claims, Hope-Patton the D◊S-

one day when I happened to be "had a horror of exaggeration" Idea was promoted for building, coveries suggested

now shrine again on the exact sibility of the footing being nearby in Norwich. I made the and pleaded with me not to pilgrimage and I prayed and embellish the story of the of the house at those of the original chapel measurements

soon after 1001 which took home some of the waters.thrine. Nazareth. A local landowner bull!

I did it all as a sort of fixe in- ; His post bag brought letters donated a wide fruct of country- { often hnd been sought

Americà, from South side and again pilgrims went to or in vain. When clay and allsurance, All I can tell you is from the Holy Land to check thethe articles fo desecration had that my wife quickly recovered Africa, India, Ceylon and Zan-

and amazed the doctors who i zibar. dimensions of Mary's house, been removed from the

well.

found that the cute iritis had His day started at 5 a.m. and water welled up and has ever

not even left the usual scor. finished at 11 pm. when selected

the Hope Pollen

since continued to give a strong

"You can make what you like last match of pilgrims had made supply," Patten said.

of it, but that is the truth," he their via dolorosa" procession actual sile

to the 14 stations of the sald.

Then there was 23-year-old which ends at a reproduction of Mary Bartle who come to the Holy Sepulchre complete alone from the with a figure of the dead Christ. Walsingham

-United Press. north of England.

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for

By HAROLD GUARD

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Inelded with. the exact mea. surements the house Nazareth,

"These

the new holy house.

**It WIS

cabbage patch At this site was built today's chosen because it was at the shrine of our Lody of Walsing- local police and junction of three lanes," he said. ham. The

Excavations actually started | Automobile Associations estima-

who ted that last year brought in 1931 und Hope-Patten,

SHE WORE

HER

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Four-year-old Meral Telat makes the bride and bridegroom £1 richor as she pins à £1 nata on to Hatice All's dress. It in an old Turkish custom to pin money (for pin money) to the at the newlyweds' clothes wedding reception. Sometimes it is held just after the ceremony or-ilka this one week later. Until the

Pilgrimage

corna.

said: ho

cross

THEY WANT CAR HORNS BANNED

THE

London.

HE National Safety Council weighed the pros and cons of getting the government to abolish automobile horns in Britain.

The Day

A Mouse Took The

Mickey

London.

A resolution calling for silence on the roads, similar to a city ordinance in effect in Paris for the past year, will be voted un at the Council's annual meeting in the autuma. It will suggest manufacturers that automobile quit installing horns in new cars,

Horng now are requited by law. But their use is forbidden al night, and all day in some areas, except in emergency.

Most Brush motorists seldom us horns anyway,

MIXED REACTION

A street survey drew mixed

COMEWHERE in a field reaction to the proposal, which

off the London South-was based on the conclusion that end road is a mouse. A very the ronds would be sufer if motorists had to rely on careful cheeky mouse,

driving and no horns to avoid accidents.

He's the Mouse Who Took

The Mickey.

road

Somewhere on that вате Bus driver Thomas Downcs Patrolman Sidney said a ban was "absolutely un- Bournor. A very red patrolman.necessary."

For the mouse look the mickey out of him.

It happened last week. At hunch-time. In the pleasant spring sunshine,

the of

Patrolman Sidney spied reception has been held, and mouse in a steady stream

can In fact, it almost the gifts of money presented, | iraffic. Turki do not fully recogniem under hie mobor-cycle, the marriage.

8o unill then the couple cannot

Clawing

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"Drivers don't over-use their hooters, and I never use mino more than once or twice a day," he said,

Downes was backed by Mrs Robin Threifall, who drives a She said midget "Bubble car." she, and her husband hardly over use our hooter, and other hooters never disturb our nino- month-old baby,"

Grela Grimshaw, a 27-year- old fashion model, said a horn ban would be "ridiculous."

not as if the English 23, at London register office. But a MOUSE? That was

on their hooters like --Express.

now. So he stopped to picks it drive Tup..

French motorists," she said. “A is essential in 醇 And then It jumped. Right hooter

Twanking emergency,” up his tunle sleeve. him as it went.

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London.

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she said, "we would be knocked down a dozen times a day, "

The one backer of road silence

was nurse Josephina Lawford,

David the root. It was 17-year-old

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David had not gone fer when shop in Camden Town and Mr Underwood clapped him on

Off came tils jacket. Up came walled out again. With Buddy the shoulder-and öft of boa

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the sea. on their way Buddy was the best boa con- mont.

Now the mouso began to 21. Later, at Clerkenwell magi atur-two strictor In the

"It's a good idea-anything to to And Sidney, begun Inches thick at his middin,trate's court, David, who lives tickle. mottled red and brown, docile at Ridgemount Gardens, laugh, And still his clothes give patients more pence," "the

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London. Comedian Kenneth Earle was Bidney. There in his agent's office making ware lola of women round me, strangercents for a free show ail okering advice,"

at a police durity concert Once the mouse had gons ha Outside, in Regent Street, his

saluted, and drove red and white sporte our wa be rossed, gas home to Central Avenue, South-being towed away it bya, sise

pollonUnited - Tress. end, for lunch.

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