Eugene Gengenwin was a friend to Père Lamy, a French priest and mystic of the last century. The holy priest had a special love for Our Lady, as well as the Guardian Angels, and he liked to encourage others to love them too.

Eugene relates the following incident:

"At Bordeaux one Sunday night, June 10th, 1928, at nine o’clock, I broke a wine-glass, getting a splinter into the right eye. At once it started weeping. How could I get an oculist [eye-doctor] at that time of night and on a Sunday too, to get it out? An idea! I asked my Guardian Angel to go and get Père Lamy to pray for me. In bed an hour later, I said three Hail Mary’s and put a wet compress of ‘Woodlands’ water on my eyes. Then I slept.

"The next morning I felt no more pain, and called them all to look at my eye. Nothing to be seen. Up in my room making the bed, I took up a picture of Our Lady of the Woodlands [a local devotion sprung from an apparition of Our Lady] which I had put under my pillow. Guess my wonder at finding the glass splinter under the picture. Not a doubt of it. An Unseen hand had taken out the splinter and put it under the picture whilst I slept. I heard nothing; saw nothing.

"At once I sent a little word of thanks to the Abbé, at Pailly just then. He assured me later on that the errand had been given him by my Guardian Angel, and how urgent it was to get the splinter out, endangering my eye.

"I asked the dear Father permission to send my Angel whenever there was need. He replied, ‘The Angels are always most charitable.’ Naturally I used my privilege as much as I could. I have always been much favored by the Reverend Father and I owe him great gratitude for his fatherly goodness. When he saw me in danger, he gave me a fatherly warning, for in what concerned me he had second sight."