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...wild laughs, blown leaves, scrawks and tongue-swallowings of jittery nightbirds, and darkness in an empty room would have pleased and scared the daylights out of Poe himself. For all the film's gently dawdling beginning, horror-specialist Producer Val Lewton and his colleagues have turned Isle of the Dead into one of the best horror movies ever made
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...
...Pierrette went to the rock every day ay 3 p.m. to pray and to help the 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...
Miracles of Val d'Or. As usual in such cases, there are skeptics. But many of Quebec's devout Roman Catholic people credit the child with performing miracles...
Pierrette's father, a Val d'Or clerk, has been fearful that his daughter's fame would spread too fast, that his family would incur the wrath of the Church.* The Church itself, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth and fraud, forbids recognition of any person's "miracles," no matter how well documented, as long as the person is alive. In Pierrette's case, the Church has been scrupulously uncommunicative...