QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 20

QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA

CONVERSION TO GREEK ORTHO

DOX CHURCH.

The Queen of Rumania, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, has joined the Greek OOrthodox Church, states the Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Express." I -understand that Queen Mario invited the Greek Patriarch to come, to the Cotroceni Palace, and there informed him of her decision. •'

She was deeply moved, and when the Patriarch asked how her conversion had been effected, the Queen confessed that her reason for the decision to change her faith was the need to be in closer spiritual relation with her children, who • wero baptised and brought up in the Greek Othodox Church. Tho scene was extremely moving. The Queen, after making confession to the Patriarch, took Communion according to the rite of tho Greek Church. This is considered a confirmation in the new faith, in view of the fact that the chief points of, difference between the Creek and the' Anglican Churches lio in the differences between the ways of taking tho Sacrament of Communion.

Tho \ Queen, deeply satisfied, left the next day for Moldavia, and visited the cemeteries of those who fell in the war on what was once the fighting front. Only the King of Rumania remains a Boman Catholic now.