MARTYRDOM OF A SAINT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 September 1928, Page 5

MARTYRDOM OF A SAINT.

ATTEMPT TO RE,VISUALISE HISTORY. AN. EXTRAORDINARY SEANCE. I I.ited Press Association—By Electric Te’.'graph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) ROME, Sept. 24. An a.t<temjp.fc to revlisualise historic events at an extraordinary seance recalling the martyrdom of Saint Agnes, wiiiot was executed in A.D. 309, was oon-i ducted by Dr. Prince, director of the fppyohjijo laborfatory. London, with a medium in. the depths of the catacombs. The medium, related eleven scenes, which partly corroborate thfe accepted story of Saint Agnes’s death. The medium saw the saint, ai girl of thirteen, imprisoned under the Colosseum, where soldiers attempted assaults. Thence she was dragged from the walls and stabbed. ' Another vision saw Saint Agnes teaching children in a marble hall when soldiers entered, arrested and imprisoned. her. The scene changed and she saw a. multitude rushing toward the saint. They stopped and listened to her expounding the Scriptures. The medium, in other scenes, saw Saint Agnes engaged in an appeal for the construction ojf a Christian church, and with her parents in public iuiiklings midst a multitude and intense commotion.