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Princess , according to the testimony of her medical attendant , Heine , had heen making progress towards the recovery of the power of walking , and he had announced to her
connexions his hopes that her cure would soon be completed . In this state of things Martin Michel is introduced to her , prays over her with great fervour , raises her mind to a state of high excitement , produces that confidence in her own power which medical men
know is in such cases alone wanting to accomplish the effect , commands her to walk , —she makes the experiment , and finds that she can do so . The deafness of the Crown Prince of Bavaria had been only a hardness of hearing ,
and though , by his own testimony , he heard a great deal better after the prayers of Prince Alexander than before , he confesses that he still hears much worse than other people . It remains to be seen too , whether even this partial amendment will be
permanent . The caution with which the Court of Rome proceeded in respect to this affair , appears at first sight extraordinary . The letter addressed to the Vicar-General , Baron von Gross , at
Bamberg , is -to the following effect : " We have heard with pleasure of the wonderful cures accomplished by the prayers of our beloved son , Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe , and exhort him to continue them , avoiding , however , all noisy publicity , lest that which is holy be made the object of
idle curiosity or ridicule . We expect from the Vicar-General an exact and faithful account of the most important of these cures , corroborated by testimony on oath , and we will then
summon a special consistory , which , after strict examination , shall decide whether they really hear the character of miracles . " Papal infallibility was not wont in ¦ former days to wait for affidavits in order to pronounce its decrees : but the reason of this cautious
proceeding is evident . The letter was received on September 8 ; on June 28 the Prince had failed in his attempts to cure the patients in the hospital : no doubt this fact was known at Rome when the rescript was drawn up , and it is , therefore , with consummate prudence that he is exhorted to avoid now / publicity , and that the final decision on his miracles is referred to
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402 Catholic Miracles in Germany .
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a consistory , which , no doubt , will hold its first sitting on the Grecian Kalends . This afrair , absttrd as it may seem to us , has excited very great attention in Germany , from the attempt made to connect the miracles of the Prince and Michel with the
claims of the Catholic Church . The review of the pamphlets occasioned by it fills 35 pages in the Jenaische All gemeine Litteratur-Zeitung of March this year , from which the facts above related have been extracted . Among them are discourses preached by
Ammon at Dresden , and Bretsehneider at Gotha , both men of great consideration among the Saxon theologians , and who would hardly have troubled their audiences upon such a subject , had not the reported miracles made a considerable impression , even in their comparatively distant sphere .
We see no reason for charging the principal agents in this transaction with any wilful fraud . Michel appears to be an ignorant enthusiastic peasant , who had been led by some accidental circumstances , to attribute a peculiar
virtue to his own intercessions , and was persuaded by the priests to consider himself as a living proof of the apostolical tradition of the gift of healing in the true Church . Neither he nor the Prince appears to have derived emolument from their
miraculous powers , or to have practised any collusion with the persons alleged to have been benefited by them . In this , as in all the cases of similar popular delusion , there can be no doubt that real benefit has been derived by some persons whose disorders have been of such a nature that lively
excitement and strong agitation were calculated to be useful to them . r lhe German Thaumaturgi will serve to furnish an additional chapter to Douglas ' s Criterion . Their fame seems already to be dying fast away . In the Frankfort Journal of Oct . 6 * 1821 ,
Michel gives notice that he is going on a journey for an indefin ite time , and shall not be able to receive the visits of those who had announced their intention of coining to him . l « e
Prince on the 15 th of the same month , declares by the same channel , " that his professional duties and the weak state of his health compel him to decline the visits of those who meant to apply to him /* This illness of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/10/
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