Religion: The Song of Pierrette

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.

Visiosn of Saint Francis. Pierrette Regimbal is a frail, pale child, seventh in a French Canadian family of twelve. Since early childhood she has been lame. One day about five years ago Pierette was playing near home when she believed she saw Saint Francis of Assisi. She touched the saint's hands. Then she saw that...

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