Word: mclsaac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uptergrove, a one-store, two-church hamlet 86 miles north of Toronto, straddles Ontario Highway No. 12. Its 204 people are almost equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Both groups have known Mrs. Donald Mclsaac all her life. She was born Eva Baye, granddaughter of a full-blooded Indian brave on the nearby Huron reservation. As a dark, pretty girl with pigtails, she went to Fair Valley public school, later married Farmer Don Mclsaac and bore him eight children. Now a stout, cheerful woman of 48, she still works on the farm, does her own housework, looks after...
...days a week, Mrs. Mclsaac is much like any other small-town matron. But for three hours every Friday evening, for the past ten years, she has suffered ecstatic agonies. She bears the stigmata-wounds corresponding to those of the crucified Christ...
...Most Peculiar." In the current Mac-Lean's magazine, Frank Hamilton describes Mrs. Mclsaac as one of the most remarkable stigmatics in history. Says Hamilton: "Of the wounds' existence there can be no doubt." The first of Mrs. Mclsaac's stigmata appeared in 1937-a small, painful sore on the back of her right hand. Over the next three years, other wounds developed. At the direction of James Cardinal McGuigan, Archbishop of Toronto, the church arranged for long, detailed examinations of Mrs. Mclsaac at two hospitals by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish doctors...