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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 465, 10 March 1882, Page 20

Mrs. Nathan Matthews, for some time an influential member <^f the Bitualistic Church of the Advent in Boston, has become a Catholic. A correspondent of the Catholic Review furnishes this information : " Mr. Matthews is a well known and very successful business man in. Boston, whose wealth was at one time estimated at eight to ten millions of dollars. His good lady had, for some time past, been dissatisfied with her position as a Ritualist, and after pursuing a quiet but thorough investigation of the whole subject, and becoming convinced of the imperative claims o.f the Catholic Church, she sought opportunity during her late summer residence at Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me., to make her recantation and profession at the hands of the Rev. Father Madden, of the Diocese of Portland, Me. (himself aim a convert) in the beautiful Catholic chapel, recently ereoted in that popular and delightful watering place.