The Persecution of the Dead

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1905, Page 6

The Persecution of the Dead

The twenty-one Ursulines of Caen, who, after lying quietly in their graves, some for thirty, some for forty years (writes a correspondent of the ' Catholic T ilmes ') were expelled by the Liquidator, have at last been laid to rest. The Bishop of Bayeux, Monsignor Amette, had asked the permission of the municipality to eficct the ceremony of transfer. This was at once courteously granted. The Bishon sent out notices . of day and hour of tne ceremony. The Freemason PrefeV thereupon declared that on no account could he tolerate any religious ceremony. The coffins were left locked up. No one. was admitted to pray or watch by tnem.