“The Abode of Love.”

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4383, 9 March 1909, Page 2

“The Abode of Love.”

SMYTH-PIGGOT UNFROCKED

London March 7. Bishops Kennion, Bishop Bath and Bishop Wells, unfrocked the famous Smyth-Piggott, leader of the Agapemonites, who did not appear at the Esclesiastical Court to defend himself. The ceremony, which was both sombre and impressive, was the first of its kind held during the thousand years which had intervened since Edward the Elder established the Sec. in 909, A. D.