Examination of evidence and report to the Most Reverend James Whitfield ... upon the miraculous restoration of Mrs. Ann Mattingly, of the city of Washington, D.C. ... together with the documents / By the Right Reverend John England.

  • John England
Date:
1830
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Credit: Examination of evidence and report to the Most Reverend James Whitfield ... upon the miraculous restoration of Mrs. Ann Mattingly, of the city of Washington, D.C. ... together with the documents / By the Right Reverend John England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    her back. She further deposes and says, that within the week previous to her said restoration this soreness of the back was exceedingly troublesome, and that she had changed the dressing twice or thrice within that period; and further, that on the morning of her said restoration, and just previous thereto, she felt the clothing of her back adhering to the ulcers of the back so as to be extremely painful, and it would have been a serious relief to her to have been dressed, but her state of exhaustion and weariness was such that she preferred suffering the pain of the undressed sore, than submit to or make the exertion of dressing it. Deponent further says, that at the moment of receiving the holy communion as before described by her, she felt herself instantaneously and perfectly freed from all her pains and sickness at about four o’clock in the morning, but such was her own feeling and occupation, and that of her family and friends who surrounded her, that neither she nor they adverted to the state of her back during nearly three hours. Deponent says, that during that period she had not changed the inside clothing which she wore during the night, but that about the hour of seven o’clock in the morning of the said tenth day of March, she, after considerable exercise, sat down on a low hard chair with wooden rungs at the back, and whilst she was leaning her back against the chair, Mrs. Sybilla Carbery, her uncle’s wife, who observed it, remarked, “Nancy, you have forgotten your back, and you are sitting in that hard chair; does it not hurt you?” or words to that effect. Upon w^hich remark the depo¬ nent answered, “No, aunt Carbery; it is perfectly well.” This deponent then retired to examine her back and to change her clothing, and she says that she found as far as it was possible for her to examine and to observe, her entire back and shoulders perfectly whole and sound, and free from any pain or tenderness, or appearance of ulcer or of a healed sore, but the skin altogether continued unbroken, and as if it never had been sore, and her clothing was also perfectly free from any appearance of having adhered to an ulcer; though she was perfectly and painfully conscious of the adherence thereof within the space of four hours before this examination. This deponent further says, that during nearly six years which have now elapsed since this her perfect restoration, she has not perceived or felt any return of this pain or ulceration under which she had been so long previously suffering; she further says, that amongst several persons to whom she related the above facts, she recollects having mentioned them about four years since to Miss Joanna England, sister of the Bishop of Charleston, at the time that she accompanied her said brother on a visit to this city. ANN MATTINGLY. Sworn to before me on the second day of November, 1829. C. H. W. WHARTON, J. P. of the County of Washington, in the District of Coliivihin.