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The cult to which the defendants belonged was proved to have flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, since its foundation by a concierge (janitress), Mme. Marie Mesmin, or "Sainted Mother Marie." The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn...
"Sainted Mother Marie." A strapping Italian youth enacted the role of Mme. Mesmin, the notorious "Sainted Mother Marie," chief flagellant of the Sadistic order of Notre Dame Des Pleurs, which has flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, France. Attired in a "mother hubbard" and brandishing a knotted rope end, he...
The Abbé appeared in court, although still suffering from the strokes which had been administered to him with knotted rope ends by his Bordeaux assailants. One by one they were called to the stand and stoutly continued to maintain that they had flogged the Abbé "because he has...
Pointing to the Abbé, defendant Maurice Lourdin cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . . He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. He can make people die, with or without pain, as he desires. . . . He sent upon us awful maladies. I suffer from them. . . . Our Sainted Mother suffers. . . ."
Defendant Lourdin explained: "When migrating birds passed over the Abbé, at Bombon, flying in the direction of Bordeaux, he filled them with diseases by sorcery. . . . When the birds passed over our homes at Bordeaux (500 miles away) they caused to grow poisonous mushrooms of lascivious shape and noxious odor...