Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHRINE NOTES. The Jubilee Year is eminently a year for pilgrimages. Chief among the conditions for making the Jubilee properly and sharing in its spiritual advantages are the pilgrimages to our local churches- It will, therefore, be fitting that the pilgrimages to the shrine this year be more numerous and fervent than ever before. It is too early as yet to announce our programme for the coming summer. If it be possible we hope to have the ceremony of blessing and offering the crown of thorns in gold for the Pieta. The crown is ready; the statue is not yet made. The delay is due to the lack of funds for this purpose. The donations of last summer did not suffice to clear the debt incurred during the past few years, and we are reluctant to add to this debt, even if this ceremony, already so long deferred, must be again postponed. We may have to call on our friends very soon to aid us in a prize bazaar, or some such means of obtaining the necessary money. Meanwhile, donations for the statue, or for any pufpose connected with the shrine will be most acceptable. Visitors to Auriesville will miss the familiar face of Mr. Victor Putman, who departed this life in January. They will remember him as the former owner of the grounds on which the shrine is erected, and his cordial interest in the improvements about the shrine itself and in the pilgrimages. One oft-repeated kindness of his cannot be forgotton. Fond as he was of his garden flowers, he loved to gather them for the ladies in charge of the altar, and it was always a pleasure to witness the delight he took in making these pretty gifts. Besides several petitions recommended to our prayers, three special thanksgivings for the intercession of Our Lady of Martyrs have been reported during the month. One is from Honesdale...