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...nun. Reversing the situation of Marie A. Easby-Smith (TIME, Nov. 1), and parallel to that of La Vestale, in the opera of that name, Anna Le Brun, 46, of New Bedford, Mass., has just been relieved by Pope Pius XI of her vows as Sister of Charity, in order to marry Sergeant Frank Levesque, 48, U. S. A. The two were childhood friends, and recently met again, after 25 years, at the bedside of a mutual friend...
...Nun. Moved by religious vision at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago (TIME, June 28), Miss Marie A. Easby-Smith, 35, woman lawyer of Washington, D. C., renounced last week her profession and the world, to enter a Maryland convent. Miss Easby-Smith's priest advised her against the step, but she said to her father, simply: "I am going...
...Upon Mindoro ("Mine of Gold"), now known as "Malaria Island," are situated the famed Havemeyer sugar plantations. †Once upon a time there eloped from Cavite, ancient Spanish Philippine settlement, a nun and a friar who were pursued by the high sheriff (el corregidor). The nun was caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns...
Died. Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop, 75, nun of Dominican Or der, daughter of Nathaniel Haw thorne; at Hawthorne, N. Y. (See MEDICINE...
This is no doubt the printer's error, but it is perhaps well to notify our less informed brethren so that they may not think the Church found it expedient to recognize the saintliness of a six-year-old child. St. Therese was a Carmelite nun, 24 years of age at the time of her death...