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£-»**<& .* >, *«• "W Tho dramatic roli of Fanny AHtn^Wnvtrf Frtd»y(retenwrj'«,J957 IL and daufhttr of aanosHc Itftan Allin, «» told Irt this articl* from COLUMBIA, national publication of the Knights of Columbus.
en's Whea Fanny tripped out ^iwMenly, t beheld «mer«inr of tfce sacristy with the ikrw- SITW flver «n wtiihal er Vase, the imp «f EthaaT» 7X ^t ^rnorf ireaemblliiK « monater .^ftM/Si •?;/ perverseness working, wlthui mm at Hah, for It waa oT «x- , her» she MWWhot Save known traordliuury tiae au»d heorM she was taking her first steps on. a new road. P*K fer taxes unwarranted, their prop I ^-Once-at the center of the ; erty confiscated? altatr, directly before the tsn> DAttlfLS ernswle, she stopped dead. Her new reading now taught Nee that she didn't try to ^Bhsssi^em -^^jH^L^Jf fttatAheae. atsftjlhlBeftaBsBta4B» Ahsstm her that the Catholic Qiurch move; she simply couldn't o^Kv jrMMrwi lino IHQITOHPOI *• would alway* be persecuted, move. She just stood, titers even to the end odt time. She t unable to • budge. Suddenly clfyr, only to b« d«p«rl#d t* obaerved concretely" as sb-e had ake feel on her knees, mur- never before that no. one she murinr, "My God! My Go*."* • rvtiKtont prisoner. Fanny Alton/ knew in Vermont haa any inter It was her first act of faith, est in the abuse of Catholics; beettriful ttauglifwr of the "Grtat inf tdol," that indeed her ovfn family HE WAS .received into the tried" to discourage ''her from Church and while preparing r»^o iwkly Into Montreal and aar« h«r- pursuing the matter, ioSr first Holy Communion, wrote home the good news. Her itif up « prtiontr of God .tho first woman T THE AGE of twgenty- parents, of course, removed her A three engaged to a student from the academy at once; but !>*KOIIM at the Infant University of Vei* now they were to hear the , of Now England hi a nun. mont, the son of a wealthy- Bos worst: Fanny wanted to join a ton merchant Fanny suddenly Sisterhood! In the ignorance of God) in whatever wtnpany lie announced a keen desire to that time such a wanton wish »^-OURlSTS AND skier* who round out her education by was branded "voluntary sui I invade Vftsitfrtt's. pwxtvl was found. studying French in Montreal. cide of a human soul." Vermont,State officials visit burial place of Sister Frances A«>en in orypt of Hotel-Dleu bn Mon- •: laWys, fllttnr tlNtr eye* in She and her fiance planne-d af YfTXHETHEJt ALL these treml where she died December Jft, 1819. sassamtr with the Green Moun- ter marriage to travel abroad. Her mother tried vainly to i jttsss* kufc trandeur, and in \T charges were true or not, French would be necessary. distract her from the thought; it h certain that hi$ work, "Aea> Was this the real reason? Then followed their clergy MHsrtetegtianc*r twltin i In the white she took her Into the fashion "No Room In The inn' " Iwiee ** flated slopes, sre aon the only Oracle of Man," a able 'society of eastern cities man son. Virgil Barber, who MvpL ywrM Or did she In realty use this studied in Rome and was or yarssdl its theJaistory «k syptem of— natural -religion, after Fanny promised to -wait excuse as an expedient to learn dained a Jesuit: in 1823 he built lAlla^tiae doughty "Boy" ! >nown also ~ai "The Oracle* ol a year. After six months, how JReajKWj," or Ethan AU«n'aBlb»«, at first hand, and in a Catholic ever, the Pennimans had to let the first Catholic church In FVew tsa* JFVwt Ttoonderofa, convent school, the beliefs and Hampshire. At the time of his California School Board -TiUhenarneoftht -was the origlrial hook: publJih- her go when hei* health suf , practices of Catholics? She fered. She had become despond ordination his wile entered the .Jfttaslr. jaM.ISel^iitfc •-*#. in AfneWc* i»"ntt«o7 to the Visitation Order. finally won the Pennimans* con ent and melancholy. Her heart Totes Nativity Play Ban •• *4octrhfW'0fTt»v»iW weliKton. sent, but not before they in was elsewhere. • «nrt«i>c««ttendin«tbelll« ' That he iniluenced h4a wcgnd. Nearly all pf Virgil Barber's Sierra Madre. Calif,—(RNS)J J ^who voted to bar Christmas rf*-'- sisted she be baptized by. the -wife to hl» Indtpendent vle>*i la Rev. Daniel Barber, Presbyter foi mer congregation folio-wed — The school board here voted,) , plays said they had no objec ststjavter, F«n»y Allen, vafter ^ot^knowii, hut ther« la -ev^- ian minister, to strengthen her Back In Montreal, visiting 3-1, to bar traditional Nativity' ! tion to Chrtsrmas carols be , W the Catholic hospital at him Into the Roman Cntriollc 6jf nee, it, he spoke her opinion* against undue Influence. convents In quest of an order to Church, among them a military plays from all the community's cause they were "cultural." ;f^ssfcfcyejn^ correctly, that -the bride and join, she and her mother went officer who examined into the schools. groom' (widow and widower) At the Notre Dame-Academy, tr. the Chapel of the Hotel were entering the marriajre narrow laws biased Against The ban was immediately In Montreal, the Sisters found Dleu, operated by a nursing and Romanists. atate with aimllax non-conform- River outside Weitminster on Fanny quick ahd observing. contemplative group of nuns. protested-by the Parent-Teach Bishops Ask Tito iatideaa. the Vermont-New Hampshire Moreover, she acquired knowl The Virgil Barber's five chil er Association of this Los border. edge of the religious exeredses There she identified St Jo dren later in life became Catho- Angeles suburb of 8.000 resi To Free Cardinal 35i» snnotuicefinent -of. their of theJ31sterA--4h-thetneacriine g seph In a painting of The Holy hes; one daughter Joined the dents. Members of the Minis ^intention, to marry caused as- Family as the man In the brown V" i sit a t Ion -nuns; the other terial Association called (or a, tonishrnent. for the|r courtship, ER ACCOUNT of the incl- 4--raetta}asTndtender care of the three girls became Ursullnes; transcript of the school board Trieste, Italy — (NO —Nine JLjldent appears in the An pUpils, as well as of their piety, robe who had saved her, when teen bishops in Yugoslavia have if there was one, was known to gentle manners ahd refinement. a child, from the river mon and Samuel, their young broth meeting before deciding upon fell have been_brjirfu Tradition ha» nals of the Hospital of Hotel er, was ordained a Jesuit. action. asked the communist govern Dfeu, Montreal: She admired and respected ster. Her decision was made.. ^itthat earlier the tavern keep ment of Marshal Tito to return them. Ethan Allon once roared into er at Westminster, who prided "I was wsfldni oste day on The issue was raised at the Jlimself that he knew every She joined the Religious Hos Montreal to capture the c-lty, Cardinal Stepinac, Archbishop the banks of the river which But because she made no pitallers of St. Joseph, was first school board after Mr. and Mrs., thing that went on, said to only to be deported to England, George D. Roane wrote a let of Zagreb, to his See, accord flowed not very far from eur secret of her unbelief, erven professed in 1808 and spent the Fartnf Buchanan, "Fanny, if a reluctant prisoner. F"anny A1-. ter declaring that presentation ing to reports reaching here. house. The water, .although making fun of religious aterv- rest of her life at the Hotel you marry General Allen, you Ices, the nuns feared for the len, beautiful daughter ot the of the Nativity scene in public very clear, rolled by in tor Dleu in the sick wards and In "Great Infidel.** rode meekly The request was said to have will be queen of a new state." rents. Suddenly, I beheld faith of the school's young schools constituted a "direct "Her retort wis qulclc, "Yes, pupils, and were about to send {.rayer,. beloved by all who Into Montreal and gave liocs^K violation of the Constitution of been made after a conference emerging from the river an knew her. up a prisoner of God—the Qrst of Yugoslav bishops, reported and if I married the Devil I animal more resembling a her home. A young nun to the United States." w«uH between otiheB!" • whom she had become attached woman of New England to be ly held In Zagreb early In Jan 3 :. •nMPpMfvontr fMUst wk HSBWB| ICHT l» won a reprieve for her. The fruits of Sister Fran come a nun. The three board members, uary. was sf aarttfcoraiaarar six* sand ces Ailen'a life work were iteriM atwaa. It WSM eontlhg SttU Fanny continued diffi abundant. The doctor who at imvi VtU, Wham, aaldV "As torn cult sund inSOltlng .in hear re tended her at her death be ,-anyisU, 1 haVe TH> |«at opln- a«sr*v»MsMy«4etlwMtiiat marks; until on* day, the least come a convert and » Car «•* - ,J^^^^M |-^JK 4aaaaHS ^fwus^in aiii^ thusian monk. Her llanos lt« at socfc lomaUtyV and, m ^nn»»o» no* nHR jMCVm ••Usl of the Blessed Mother's birth, horn what 1 can dlicovtr, she Jawsj^WISw^a^Bsjra ^ day, the two were arranging gave all his riches se the -mdmt*^mm- for ~^"~ —"Ittle? ortrarfSrinat- "While I was Is* this tor- * ::aWW*?»' ">». chapeT "SDlsrt ity as I dd But as a decent re The Sister asked her to place a (TattteUe-C •eritig sikistloa I saw advanc 5 spect for the opinions of man- ing towards hie a raaan of vea- vase, beat the -tabernacle. "Be Barber, -who fcsdl baptised Jam seems to require it, you eraM* sad strlkiatg coonte- spreJ* Jhe. said, "yoa, adore our her -a Preasyteriin, h*os«« s, will proceed." SUHMS, wetriag a brown cloak J.^cT*mental Lord." Old Etfaan'i «o»*ertatff aat^oarrylaxr a itsut in his f pjpEHter tittered a*id at once two, twa> When the Judge came to the r kasi, Ha loek ma gently by decided not to maks? any act of death, as * dkl "Wr'^nTe* question, "Do you, Ethan Allen, ''etiquette" before the aUtar. Fanny's virtues, they said, promise to live with Fanny the arm and gave me ssrtnrtn to move while he Why should she, since she; did led tJiem to study the relig Buchanan agreeable to> the laws not .believe In the "Presence?" ion that had Influenced her. of God?" the grist leader said most kindly k* me: *My •*t»y eadfai' Th* ^lea» ehikl, what are you doing aMlMrimHa'' ' boomed out in the quiet room, "Hold on! Hold on! Whkk God •ere? Haalen away.' I then sue you talking about? If you ma as fast as I oould. OPf-N DAHY • to 5:JCf •Iw short thirty.two year* of mean the laws of God as writ . Vie. It was not through any re> ten in the great book of Nature, "When I was tome distance tUIS. on*? THURS, NIOHTS 'Hi * __4 Uiiou* atmosphere, example or pray go on. My team Is at the off. I turned to look at this s *votion at home that she found door." venerable man but I could see .'"btt way to the answers to the him nowhere. At soon as I | Jittesikms troubang her toind These, then, were trie father reached home ... I told my \ ffliotofc CSod. Ra«>tr the conoary. and the mother of Fanny Allen, mother the cause of my fright for the Neuo and Different V *Uiaa Allen Boasted that his born in November 1784. child of and how an elderly man with a ** inly God ivasHN God oljfs- free-thinkers, whose male par most benevolent countenance BARBA- fure. ent was positive of one thing: had come to my rescue . . ." tiiatirehwsa HftChfit^f&.SBEr, CHARO tsept mere infant; baptjim 'rn'ak* •* -- --In spite of a tllllgent search Jehovah as a« bnuwii«h«i faljt rue one-." Sodieoxie In -tils time tflf-lhank the man fox hit kind «Wot|t iad clipbed the barrack in New England, labeled him the ness, none of the family could Barbecue - frtaterja; old Fort.^!I3-*'Is.'«ipen' Hornea-Devil of Venaont find any sign of hlrru For years ' to #M*tioitx. Oeutenant' Fel- aiferV Fanny, wholiefyoung life ---#ana,; SurreJidering ricitkfci^f. was full of gay social rounds, 1 GRILL p-ANJOf BEGAN.'life in a $m fc«(W no mentifl. .m in searched the faces e£ men. hop- Ja/hoste where-the iaea of a *Si repwri ^7 -.;; * hag to find her benefactor. She $ 95 personal, God «f^r-«03|'ed at, eventually found htttx In a place J^*i|lHajcris, witli A^etf at where prayer was thought to she never thought fb find her 4 19- . .*»^feM>iia th«y*#ii-:«uy have no relation to a rtUonal self. Ifteii^khe heard of fehervah religion and In which the* con J»it; iK-*lfe*t m ten horribly cept of anything supernatural In the light olj subsequent Designed for indoor cooking in the den or living room Wa^pfceamoiM aad vonprlntable
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