PENANCE IN SECRET
STORY OF IRISH LABOURER DEATH REVEALS STRANGE FACTS LONDON. March 26. A slorv of veals of secret penance has I.ecn rew-ah-d by the. death of a Dublin labourer, Mat I In-w lal|i" f , aged t-o, v- 1 1 0 dropped dead ill \\ tiling t Mnir-h Ll wa- (IlsCO'eird that, deceased Wore .1. hca\\ (ham around Ins waist. a lighter chain e-u one arm. and a cord of St Francis around the other He |ia-l w -u*ii the chains for 1-1 .wars, slept on a plank hed, and observed fasts and nmr tiliealion as rigorous as those under gone l.iv the early sands. Ihe man had lived alnm f-»r 4G vents in a smglc room, w hich cost him ,V 1 • I "eel. He played from R Until 4 " elock every morning, and attended •l" earliest Mass Hit co-reLigionists art? hoping that (lie Roman C'atholie Chmvli will re.asgmse Idm as * The Sami of the Blums. "
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 April 1926, Page 8
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157PENANCE IN SECRET Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 April 1926, Page 8
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