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The Pope’s Stocking Cure

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 37.

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The Pope’s Stocking Cure

THIS story about Pope Pius IX. is told by the Pall Mall Gazette: He granted an audience to a French lady of high station, who threw herself at his feet and devoutly thanked him for the restoration of her health. "But how have I done it?" inquired the pope. "I procured a stocking that belonged to your Holiness," she replied. "One of my stockings?" "Yes, I put the talisman on my diseased foot, and it has been completely cured." "Madam," replied the pope a little maliciously, "fortune has been very kind to you. You need only put on one of my stockings and your foot is healed, while I put on both my stockings every morning, and I can hardly walk."—Sel.