"The famous Mattingly miracle of 1824..."

(CATHOLICA.). [MATTHEWS, WILLIAM.]. A Collection of Affidavits and Certificates, Relative to the Wonderful Cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly, Which took place in the City of Washington, D.C. on the tenth of March, 1824. City of Washington: 1824. 1st ed. 8vo. 41 pp. Removed, spine guarded with linen tape. $375.00

Parsons 828. Shoemaker 17080. Ann Mattingly's illness began in 1817 with a tumor in her left breast "bout the size of a pigeon's egg," and progressed to a "habit of vomiting large quantities of blood and offensive matter." Given up by her doctors, in 1824 she was totally cured "pursuant to the directions of Prince Hohenlohe, a Catholic Priest of Bamberg, in Germany, as communicated to her by the Rev. Mr. Dubuisson, Assistant-Pastor of St. Patrick's Church, in the City of Washington, she performed a novena, or nine day's devotion, in honor of the Most Holy Name of Jesus,...and having made her confession to the Rev. Mr. Matthews,...the Holy Eucharist was administered to her." Within "five or six minutes" she was cured. Prince Hohenlohe was a devout Bavarian priest who worked many cures in many lands; the cures he wrought in the U.S. occasioned bitter controversy. Six of the affidavits collected by the Rev. Matthews are from medical doctors, and one deposition is sworn before Chief Justice John Marshall. "The famous Mattingly miracle of 1824" (Finotti) is the first important Catholic-American miracle.