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The first public appearance of the Radeliffe College Orchestra will be May 15 at 3 o'clock in the living room of the Agassiz House. The orchestra is under the direction of Catherine S. Balley '23, and is conducted by Ruth Glover '33.
Keen was the lamentation, sonorous the drumming which last August howled from the strange Church of the Innocent Blood in a swampy outskirt of New Orleans. Mother Catherine Seal, mulatto foundress of a faith-healing Afro-Catholic cult, was dead in far-away Lexington, Ky.
Thousands of devotees, black and white, went to Mother Catherine for "cures." Her apostles searched them at the wooden gate for weapons. The unarmed entered, had a pinch of salt dropped in a palm, which they lapped up and made a wish for Mother Catherine's help. "Saints" lined...
In the Church of the Innocent Blood "saints," "apostles" and "prophets" wailed, rubbed their drums, kissed the gaudy wounds of their Christ, fondled the feet of their Deity, groveled at their "Sea of Gethsemane," prayed with the soft-rubbed words of Louisiana Negroes for the fulfillment of their "vision": that...
Mother Catherine's mantle descended upon Mother Rita, whose career was last week checked by the public administrator. Although they owed neither debts nor taxes, the followers of Mother Catherine lost their temple. She forgot to make a will and left no heirs. The public administrator had to do...