The Virgin Mother of Good Counsel - the Catholic Kingdom!

4 . THE VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSELits estension it was by means of a most strikingand significant miracle. A beautiful Image of HisMother holding the Divine Infant in Her sacred arms,passed from a land just taken by the Turks to thevery spot where the Virgin Mother of Good Counselhad been hoeoured for over a thousand years. Thetranslation of this Image was eg'ected without humaninterferenoe and amidst many prodigies. It naturallycreated a widespread and deep impression at thetime. On a festival, it appeared amidst a multitudein the public square, and rested near the wall of thechurch where it still remains. The fervour it createda~ongsthe people of God, the graces, the consolationr, and the miraculous favours obtained at its Shrine,continue to this day. It has thus become the fountainof devotion to the Virgin Mother of Good Counsel forall the* faithful of Christ, in all the lands which owntbe sway of His Vicar on earth.4. The writer has therefore entered very fullyinto the history of this sacred Image; and .the reader,to become convinced of a fact so extraordinary as itswonderful translation from Scutari in Albania to Genazzano,must have the patience to read what he haswritten on that point. All that is said, is proved byfacts as well authenticated as any other facts ofpast history. And here a possible thought may bemet. The reader lqay never have heard of the mir-a~le before. He may deem such an occurrenae strangeand unaccountable. He may perhaps, be somewhatinfluenced , although unoonsciously , by that atmasphereof incredulity which surrounds Catholics in allEnglish speaking lands, and which is prone, whilePRIVATE USE ONLY