Efficacy in a Mutilated Saint
There is a church connected with the convent at Chartreux, Provence. It was dedicated to St. John, and over the portico were colossal statues of the four evangelists, which have been thrown down, and the fragments lie scattered about. When Miss Plumptre and her party visited the spot, they observed a woman upon her knees over a fragment of stone, muttering to herself. When asked whether there was any particular virtue in the stone, she replied, in French: “Ah, yes? ’Tis a piece of St. John.” She seemed to think that the saint’s intercession in her behalf, mutilated as he was, might still avail her.