The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-01-15
CHASTITY RELIGIOUS RITES.
People who Sleep in Collins, Wear Chains
and Undertake to Work Miracles.


and Undertake. to Work NIirncles
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.-Thcre are !
live women and one man living at No. |
lG2 Amherst Street who sleep every
night in their respective collins. a Ger
tain DIR. jacques, a widowcr and gradu- |
ate OF the Victoria School Of Medicine.
has founded Il community at the num-
ber above mentioned, aud, in order to
verify the reports rs to the extraordinary
character of the house in question. y
visit was paid TO the establishment.
DR.. Jacques has the appearance of a
very siuccrc man, but is evidently
touched on the religious question. and,
in fact, he admits that Archbishop Fabrc
is not pleased with the work he is carry
ing on. However, he believes God is
with him, and that the ecclesiastical ap-
probation will sooner or later descend
upon is head. II made q bargain with
the bonDicu, ,"bcgan the zeal Gus doctor,
1.-THE year the smallpox ragged in Mon
treat" says the Toronto Empire. 81
visited no less than | 200 cases, and in
return God greatly favored the mission l
have Ill hand. viz, the alteration of the
Holy Face.'"
Among the patients was a family from
st. Jerome named AubiD. and the father
and mother, with five daughters, the
eldest twcnty-iour years and the young
est thirteen, now live under the Doctors
roo!. The parents live like ordinary
mortals, but the five children lead a life
almost as severe as the terribly austcrc
regime OF Il CarmClite nun. The house
i'll question Is not Of modern cOnstruc-
ton by any means, and when the visitor
was shown into the courtyard in the rear
| the elder Aubln was engaged washing
the doctors wagon, and his good vile
was similarly occupied with the VIII
dows.
AS this worthy couple do not belong
TO the community proper, and consc-
qucntly do not sleep in collins, they were
lclt at their work and the next floor was
reached. The five little sisters, as the
doctor calls them, were found robed in
red material, with q white head-drcss
lalllnS down over their shoulders.
These girls have no education whatever,
yet their medical protector says they
arc very learned in things pertaining to
the cel lestlal sphere. Thcyrct;r at $50
AMI arise at I, and although all work for
the house. the greater part Of the day is
spent Ill alteration and prayer.
By the side Ola nicely decorated alter
stands post about six feet in height
and upon the latter hangs an OK chain
ten lcet long, the use Of which was eX.
planned as follows by the good doctor
) When Montreal Is given over to carni
Q walls, to balls and parties, and when tn
devil hnds 1t easy to tempt lrail men an
e women kind, it Is at these seasons thu,
t the five sisters devote themselves mos
l mtently to pcnltcncc and prayer. Thi
heavy chain Is hung around each sister
= neck lor an hour ut Il time, while the
knccl III prayer for their sisters Of tn
world whom destiny has thrown il
temptations way.
The doctor now draws aside Il curtain
:, and large deep coffin, painted blacl
7 and coycred with gray cotton, meets th,
!. astonishcd gaze of the reporter. Th,
q cloth being removed, the pillow is founc
| to be made of soft wood, and not a sin
, Gle article Of clothing is visible. ThC
/ five sisters sleep upstairs, the sccon,
= floor beng divided into a half dozel
S small, chccrlcss rooms or cells. Tn
l furniture in each ofthcsc sleeping apart
I mcnts consists ofa black coffin, Il tabl
5 and tin wash basin, the same absenc
g.. OF clothing beng quite as marked as OF
u the floor below.
q In reply to a question, DR.. Jacquc
! stated the girls would rather die an
a time than leave the community, and h
: ratified off the most wonderful miracle
l. that had been operated following a brit
y sojourn in his community.
. a brother from Okla had left his ow
establishment broken down with diseas,
l. and after sojourn of forty-eight hou
= at No. lG2 Amherst Street had return
5. 5. cG to his menastc home in Otland wcig
- ing sixty pounds more than when
', a left and being qnitc unrcconizablc !
70 his religious conicrcrs. "In fact" CO
III cludcd the doctor, "iar more mracl
I arc performed at Ste. Anne dc Bcaupr
IS. and everything has been done but brin
of ing the dead to life again."