NEW RELIGION

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3354, 29 September 1931, Page 6

NEW RELIGION

WEALTHY WOMEN IN SACKCLOTH.

A remarkable movement which aims at revolutionising modern life and inducing the wealthy classes of England to live a simple, almost a monk-like, existence has been begun in London.

Known as the Confraternity of St. George, the members are pledged to the utmost simplicity in matters of diet and dress.

The higher members of the Order wear a simple coarse dress with the insignia of the Order—a red cross with the initials of the Order woven into it—attached to the front.

The Order has been founded by Mrs Levett, the widow of a wealthy Staffordshire landowner.

" One of our aims is to promote a higher standard of conduct in daily life, more especially as regards the sanctification of the married state," she told a London Sunday Chronicle representative. "We aim at simplifying life, and raising the social and spiritual values of the people.

"We hope shortly to have orders founded under the patron saints of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany.

" I firmly believe that we shall have a far-reaching, world-wide influence."

At the present moment the headquarters of the Society is a small house in Westminster. There is a refectory in which members can have simple and plain meas. There is also a devotional room attached which is set apart for the private meditation of members.

Among the members are a wellknown banker, a stockbroker, and a number of society women.