The albe's connexion wita the sect _beran some years ago, when he was invited to make a ">pilrime axe" to Bordeaux. He there made the acquaintance of Marie Mesmin, and, as she complained of having been bewitched by a Syrian archie mandrite, he went through the ceremony of exorcising her in his priestly vestments. Apparently, somebody in the sect thought that ice of this kind, conducted by jest, would cure the bodily complaints from which the leader of the cult was suffering, but why. the failure of the experiment should excite the wrath of the fanatics against the Abbé Desnoyers it is at present impossible to say.
Adherents in Canada and England The sect was founded over 20 years ago by Marie Mesmin, then concierge, on the strength of supposed' miraculous statue of the Virgin, which, she alleged, shed. tears. Though the "miracle" was never endorsed by the clergy, she has kept the soct alive and is living comfortably on the donations from its members, who are said to be some 2,000 strong. It has adherents in England and Canada. At one time che had great hopes of harnessing the Syrian archimandrite above-mentioned, a pice turesque personage, to her car, but his belief in the miracle faded away, and, she says, he bewitched her.
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