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CHURCH HOLDS AN INQUIRY,

Writing from Berlin on August : 6, the London Morning Post corros-death was announced in mall pondent states:

A case of stigmatal appearing in a peasant girl of Konnersreuth in the Upper Palatinate has for over A year attracted thousands of pilgrims and tourists from all parts of Germany. Several pamphlets. have been written about the mystery, and from time to time articles have appeared about it in the German newspapers. Interest has now been increased as the Catholic Ordinary of Regensburg has deemed it advisable to form a committee of inquiry into this singular case.

Therese Neumann, who is 29 years old, is the eldest of ten children of a poor tailor in Konnersreuth. As a child she was normal and healthy. In the spring of 1918, while she was helping to extinguish a fire which had broken out on the farm of her employer, she had a serious accident, by which she was completely paralysed. In 1919 she went blind. Although four doctors were called to her beside, no saisfactory diagnosis was established. In the spring of 1923 she regained her eyesight; in May, 1925, she regained possession of her limbs. According to her story, the first healing took place on the anniversary of the beatifi- cation of her namesake, Teresa, and the second on the anniversary of her canonisation.

Wounds That Bleed.

week, was the eldest son and heir of that fine old sportsman, the Earl of Coventry, who is now in his ninetieth year. He had him-. self reached his sixty-second year, and was a grandfather.

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Lord Deerhurst had an in- teresting and varied career. He had tried his hand at gold-mling in Australia, been a big-game hunter in Rhodesia, an bricklayer in the United States, a soldier, and a county councillor, besides having been for a time connected with the London Stock Exchange.

His brick-laying experience was due to his desire to obtain first- hand information of the bullding industry. For this purpose he went to the United States and worked as a bricklayer, and he became so expert that last year he was able to tell a gathering in Worcestershire that he had ac-. tually laid 1,000 bricks a day. He afterwards had a controversy with the Amalgamated Union of Build- ing Trade Workers, who challenged him to produce documentary evi- dence in support of a suggestion that English brickleyers were not allowed to lay more than 350 bricks a day.

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Military Service.

Born on November 15, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was for a Sines Good Friday, 1926, more time a Lieutenant in the Worces- over, Therese Neumann has borne tershire Regiment, and subse- became - Lieutenant. stigmata not only on her hands and quently

the 2nd feet, but also on the left breast, Colonel Commanding and her forehead is said to show Volunteer Battalion of the Wor- marks of the crown of thorns. Alcestershire Regiment and Com- her wounds, and also her eyes, are mandant of the Worcestershire said to bleed every Friday. At National Reserve. He saw ser these times the peasant maid has vice in the Great War, and was visions, and describes ecstatically mentioned in despatches. all the incidents in the story of the Lord Deerhurst was prominent Passion. In the midst of these de-as an agriculturist in Worcester- scriptions she is said to break out shire, of which county he was suddenly into Aramaic, and expert Justice of the Peace and a Deputy linguists are reported to have Lieutenant. He was also a mem visited her bedside and confirmed ber of the County Council and the correctness of her speech. Vice-Chairman of the Territorial

Association.

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It is asserted that Therese Neu- mann has not eaten for several

Like his father, he was a keen months; only with the greatest dif- sportsman, and for several years ficulty is she able to swallow daily he was Chairman of the Worces a part of a consecrated wafer dia-tershire County Council. solved in a few drops of water.

In 1804 he married Virginis, Notwithstanding the extraordi-only daughter of William Daniel nary details which this story con- and step-daughter of the late tains, a Roman Catholic priest who Charles. W. Bonynge. He leaves is a Professor of Theology and has two Sons and two daughters. studied the matter assured me that His elder son, who will now "be the case should be taken in all seri-known as Viscount Deerhurst, is ousness. He told me that it was a the Hon. George W. R. V. Coven- fact that the Bishopric of Gegenstry, who was born in 1900, married burg had sent two Franciscan nuns in 1921 the Hon. Nesta Philops, to Konnersreuth, who had watched eldest daughter of Lord Kylsant. Therese day and night for the last and has two daughters. few months, and confirmed accounts

of her prolonged fast. He told me

Modern Parallels.

Lord Donington, Eaton-square, that the Catholic community could s.W., and formerly of Gjenlee pronounce no opinion as to whether Park, New Galloway, N.B., and the case were nervous or super-Hatley Park, Sandy, Beds., left natural until the Ordinary of Re-

£71,266, with net personalty £51,- gensburg had completed its inquiry 402. Under the provisions of various deeds Lord Donington ap- points to his wife a jointure of the The feature of stigmata has been maximum amount which he has known from the very earliest days. power to charge. He gives | The usual occurrence is for the 000, the household furniture, marks of the nails and the thorne horses, carriages, and motor-cars of the crucified Christ to appear on to his wife, £500 each to Gerald the body either in the form of patches or in the form of actual William Partridge and John Gilles Shields, and the residue of the blood. Throughout the centuries there have been numerous reported estate to his wife for life. On her death he leaves three-sevenths cases, one of the most famous, being thereof in trust for his daughter that of St. Francis of Assisi, in

Margaret Selina Flora Maud whose case the miracle of stigmata was solemnly confirmed by two Stewart, and four-sevenths in separate Popes of the Thirteenth trust for his daughter Irene Mary Century. There are records of Egidia Hastings Campbell. varying value of some 150 cases of stigmatisation, which vary from the mere reddening of the surface to actual bleeding.

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The Rev. G. H. Woolley, who won, the V.C. when serving with the Queen Victoria Rifles in 1915, The question presents consider-has been appointed an assistant able difficulty. On the one hand master at Harrow School. The there is the evidence of the Church, act for which Mr. Woolley received which at times, at any rate, Has the Army's most caveted distinc- taken the view that the appearances tion was recorded in the London are marks of special Divine Grace. Gazette in the following terme. On the other hand, it is common "Geoffrey Harold Woolley, 9th knowledge that such marks can be (County of London) Battalion the Regiment, Territoriil produced by a physielan-through London

most conspicuous auggestion or by selfhypnosis. Force, for The body tissue may be so altered bravery on Hill 60 during the by self-hypnosis that the blood night of 20-21 April, 1915. Al- suffuses through the pores and though the only officer on the Hill penetrates just those parts of the at the time, and with very few body to which the subjects has men, he successfully resisted all directed attention.

Three Notable Cases.

attacks on the trench, and con- tinued throwing bombs and en- couraging his men until relieved. Of modern parallels to the case His trench during all this time reported, the most remarkable, all was being heavily shelled and bombed, and was subjected to in the Nineteenth Century, are those of Katherina Emmerich, heavy machine-gun fire by the Maria von Moril, and Louisé Lateau, enemy." Second Lieutenant Wool- Maria von Moril was said to haveley, as he then was, was the first experienced the passion of Christ Territorial officer to win the Vic- in her own body, and on Corpus toria Cross. Christi Day, 1833, she lapsed into

an exultant. ecstasy that became Passion Week. In the case of famous in the Catholic world. Louise Lateau of Mons, blisters Nearly 40,000 people saw the appeared on hands and breast, spectacle. As Louis Satow has which bled every Friday. Of this stated: "By means of autosug latter case Rudolf Virchow said, gestion the wounds caused by the "Imposition or a miracle," while nails in Jesus's hands and feet Professor Delboeuf, of Liege, appeared in his own, and even the characterised the occurrence wound in the side was reproduced." "auto-suggestivo phenomena from In the case of Katherina the intensive concentration of the Emmerich, a hysterical subject, the attention upon the wounda of marks of the wounda bled every Christ." Friday, and more particularly in

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