Life of the Reverend Mother Jeanne Chézard de Matel, foundress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament, according to original manuscripts / by the Reverend Mother Saint Pierre of Jesus ; translated from the original French by Henry Churchill Semple . , and which is more aston-ishing than all the others, but is attested by several wit-nesses. A boy nine years of age, a son of Madame deSoleil, who dwelt at the foot of Mount Gourguillon, hadbeen dead for several hours. M. Chabanier, the chaplainof the convent of the Incarnate Word, had been the tutorof this boy, who afterwar
Life of the Reverend Mother Jeanne Chézard de Matel, foundress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament, according to original manuscripts / by the Reverend Mother Saint Pierre of Jesus ; translated from the original French by Henry Churchill Semple . , and which is more aston-ishing than all the others, but is attested by several wit-nesses. A boy nine years of age, a son of Madame deSoleil, who dwelt at the foot of Mount Gourguillon, hadbeen dead for several hours. M. Chabanier, the chaplainof the convent of the Incarnate Word, had been the tutorof this boy, who afterwards embraced the ecclesiasticalstate. Mother de Matel, having learned of the extremesadness of that lady whom she knew intimately, went tosee and console her. After speaking for some momentswith tire desolate mother, she approached the child, raisedthe shroud which covered him, called him by his nameand told him to come and dry up the tears of his little dead boy immediately arose full of life. Invain the saintly Mother commanded silence. All criedout that this was a miracle. The fact soon became public. After relating these and several other prodigies wroughtby the prayers of Mother de Matel while still living, Mother 574 LIFE OF JEANNE CHEZARD DE MATEL. ]louse at the Foot of Gourguillon in which the Miracle took place. de IJely adds: We of the monastery of Paris and thosein our other monasteries in which our worthy Motherpassed several years, have committed an irreparable faultby failing to gather the numerous wonderful things which<jod wrought in our houses, on! of consideration for her MIRACULOUS EVENTS 575 and in favor of every class of persons who had recourseto her in order to be aided by her prayers. We were verywrong in not consigning to writing the oracles which camefrom her mouth on thousands of occasions and whichwrought so many conversions. This obliges us to say thatwe have been blinded to the light by the light, and thatwe have satisfied ourselves b
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