A QUEER SECT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 68, 20 April 1926, Page 5

A QUEER SECT

FLOOOmC OF AN ABBE I**' " >-V - ' - ‘ . 5 WOMEN DECLARED INSANE. • ■ 1 ■ .. . CANNOT BE CONVICTED. S £ ■ ■ :: v, ; . .Press Association— Copyright, Australian' mid N.Z. Cable Association.PARIS, April: 19.' In the case of the flogging of the Abbe Desnoyors, the doctors reported v to the court that Mario- Mesniinvthe founder of the sect of Notre Dame Des Fleurs, was insane, and the: two women disciples who flogged the abbe were mentally irresponsible and Thus they 'cannot be convicted. ' A cablegrani from Paris on January 6 stated: A violent attack bn the Abbe Desnoyers, of BorabonN near IVlelun, is made a feature in the Press. After mass twelve persons threw'pepper In his eyes, he was bound,'strippedl of his clothing and flogged. His cries attracted gendarmes, who arrested the assailants. They declared they had come expressly from Bordeaux to chastise the Abbe, whom they accused of witchcraft and flamed for their family misfortunes. The assailants were charged with con* spiracyj-assault ,aml outraging morality* • •■ ' . It transpired that they were members of. the order of Notre Dame, des Fleurs and the trial seemed a inversion to the middle ages rat her;-than a civilised court of 1926. jv,-, .