A BRIDE'S CHOICE.
TWO CHURCH INCIDENTS. A wedding at the French Church off Leicester Square recently recalls a scene in the same church twelve years ago, when the bride, who was then 13 years of age, was seriously burned, her dress catching fire, during a Communion service.
The girl, Miss Ida Fantoni, was attending her first Communion with about 100 other girls in 1913, and her veil caught on a lighted gas-ring, and she was enveloped in flames. Extensive scars on her arms still bear witness to her injuries. Father Robin, who officiated at her marriage to Mr. F. Galli, was the priest who also took the Communion service twelve years ago. He made sympathetic reference to the accident, arid offered up a brief prayer of thanksgiving for her recovery.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 16 (Supplement)
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