BROTHER ANDRE AND THE ORATORY OF ST. JOSEPH.
CHAPTER XVI
The Miracle Man of Montreal—Brother Andre
Whose Great Work Has Done Great Good—A
Youth With a Strange Power—Authentic
Accounts of Some of the Miracles—All
Faiths Benefited by Him.
The day of miracles is not past. Ever since Christ raised the dead, healed His suffering suppliants, gave voice to the dumb, sight to the blind, and hearing to the deaf; ever since He turned water into wine at the marriage feast at Cana and fed the multitude with five loaves of bread and two small fishes, down through the long ages, miracles have been wrought. There were many sincere believers in them, but there were more scoffers and doubters. As it was then, so it is with the world to-day. Time was, especially in recent years, that many non-Catholics sincerely believed that these alleged miracles existed merely in the untutored minds of the superstitious followers of the Roman Catholic Church.