For perhaps the millionth time, in the Convent of the Carmelite Sisters, Louvain, Belgium, the bread and wine became sacred elements of the body of Our Lord. The priestsaying his first masswas Count Claude Delbee, one-time officer in the army of the King of the Belgians. To his former wife, the Countess, he gave the wafer, looked upon her, never to look again.
The bonds of matrimony having been loosed, he, ordained a fortnight ago by Cardinal Mercier, has become monk in the congregation of the Picpus Fathers She, henceforth, is Sister Claire...
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