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...weeks remained aloof while the legend of Pierrette Regimbal grew & grew (TIME, Oct. 1). The legend said that 13-year-old Pierrette had been visited by St. Francis of Assisi, could work miraculous cures.* The Church noted that thousands of ailing pilgrims were visiting Pierrette's homemade grotto in predominantly Catholic Quebec, and that hundreds of others were writing to beg shipments of water from Pierrette's well...
Every day for weeks, pilgrims by the scores and hundreds have trudged to a grotto a few miles outside the gold-mining town of Val d'Or. Quebec There they hoped to see- some professed to see- a 13-year old girl work miracles...
...sick and teh crippled. As they years passed by story spread that Pierrette was gifted with supernatural powers and could obtain the intercession of St. Francis in healing the ills of the faithful. Val d'Or's civic leaders contributed labor and material to build Pierrette a grotto...
...uncle of Pierrette was last week reportedly trying to interest a New York syndicate in buying exclusive rights to pictures of her and her grotto...
Letter from Home. In the Grotto, where the Nudist Colony had sported during the Exposition, men sat around working with plexiglass and leather, boisterously joking. A Catholic chapel has been built in the basement of the old anthropological museum. There a boy in Navy uniform knelt at a golden altar, his new artificial leg stuck out behind him at an awkward angle. In a smoke-filled billiard room in the old California Tower Building a marine with a black patch over one eye cocked his head back so he could use his good left eye for sighting...