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which continued till they thought :fit to defcend 

 from their ftation ; and this appearance was fo 

 common, that the cures and converfions were 

 Comparatively little confidered j the votaries of 

 the Abbe Paris came to be known by the title 

 of Convulfioniftsy and many perfons confidered 

 thofe gambols as the only effect of the mira- 

 culous power. A colle6lion of the moft remark- 

 able cures, ftrengthened by the depofitions of the 

 friends and medical attendants of the patients, 

 was drawn up by Mr. de Montgeron, a coun- 

 fellor of the parliament, who had been converted 

 at the tomb, and by him prefented to the King. 

 The Archbifliop of Paris oppofed the authen- 

 ticity of the miracles, but a report in favour of 

 them was prefented to him, certified by twenty- 

 three cures (Vicars) refiding in Paris, two Bifhops 

 declared for them, in the pulpit, and the Cardinal 

 de Noailles fupported them with his authority*. 

 The advocates for thefe miracles infilled 

 chiefly on the cure's : the convulfions were ob- 

 jefted to them by their enemies, who confidered 

 them as demoniacal, which v/as allowed by fome 

 of the convulfionills themfelvesf, as well as 

 that fome indecencies were e^thibited at the 

 tomb. One of the patients who was lame of the 



* Priv, Life of Louis XV. Mirac. de M. de Paris. 

 Verite des Mirac. Demontr. par Moiitg. Jevvilh Letters. 



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