a
fame as a performer of miraculous cures that multitudes flocked from
different countries to receive the benefit of his supposed
supernatural gifts. In one year (1848-49) there were eighteen thousand
people who obtained access to him. His name and his titles probably
had not a little to do with his wide influence. They were Alexander
Leopold Franz Emmerich, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfuerst,
Archbishop and Grand Provost of Grosswardein, Hungary, and Abbot of St.
Michael's at Gaborjan.

The testimony concerning his cures is from reliable witnesses. Notice
the letter written by the ex-King of Bavaria to Count von Sinsheim,
describing his own case:

My dear Count:

There are still miracles. The ten last days of the last
month, the people of Wuerzburg might believe themselves
in the times of the Apostles. The deaf heard, the blind
saw, the lame freely walked, not by the aid of art, but
by a few short prayers, and by the invocation of the
name of Jesus.... On the evening of the 28th, the number
of persons cured, of both sexes, and of every age,
amounted to more than twenty. These were of all classes
of the people, from the humblest to a prince of the
blood, who, without any exterior means, recovered, on
the 27th at noon, the hearing which he had lost from
his infancy. This cure was effected by a prayer made for
him during some minutes, by a priest who is scarcely
more than twenty-seven years of age--the Prince
Hohenlohe. Although I do not hear so well as the
majority of the persons who are about me, there is no
comparison between my actual state and that which it was
before. Besides, I perceive daily that I hear more
clearly.... My hearing, at present, is very sensitive.
Last Friday, the music of the troop which defiled in the
square in front of the palace, struck my tympanum so
strongly, that for the first time, I was obliged to
close the window of my cabinet.

The inhabitants of Wuerzburg have testified, by the most
lively and sincere acclamations, the pleasure which my
cure has given them. You are at liberty to communicate
my letter, and to allow any one who wishes, to take a
copy of it.

Bruckenau, _July 3d, 1822_. Louis, _Prince Royal_.

Professor Onymus, of the University of Wuerzburg, reported a number of
cases cured by Prince Hohenlohe, which he himself witnessed. He gives
the following:

"Captain Ruthlein, an old gentleman o