Arizona republican., 1904-11-16
MdrquiSe deS MerinViIIe
 Leaves Catholic Church
RF- EMBRACES OLD FAITH
4 Story From Rome of Such Moment That the Associated Press Verihed IL by Cable-The harquise's Imma- ginatiOn, She Says, Was at Fault

New York. Nov I5--T-le Azsoclltel Press has received the following
 Before giving it publication its al- thenticity. has been fully verified b- cable from Rome
 Rome. Oct 80. 1904--To the editors | Of the AssO- O-iatet Press
 -You have nay full permission co print the enclosed and give it as wide publication as is possible ly you Yours truly.
 MARQUISE DIES MONSTERS
 Dear Editor--Et may interest some of your readers to know that the Na-- qaise des 8IOnstirs A-erinvilIe. former iy Miss SL Cf. Casdwefl wEc. l- u..-I be remembered founded -he Ro-u- |. Catholic University at WashinE-cr- some years ago. has entirely r=1clla-- ! ed he- forme- creed Ina an Interview with ire the otae~ day she saId- -Te=. ! it is true, I have left the Roman Clt-- Ohc church. Since I have been Iivl1- in Ec-Ope. my eyes have been opened to W-Iat tta- church really ls. and 60
 it's anything but sanetity- But rl. trouble goes much farther back tlaa this Being naturally reiiEi1ls r.y ! imagination was early .aueht by ta- ! idea Of deing some. hiur re l-f- tae church from the Iowly position. gllIlh i it occupied in America so thought of university or hiEhe- school where tLs ciersy eou-d be tiueateI and lr ro-- sible rcIned- or course iu this I was greatly influenced by Bishop SlaIlil-. | O. Peoria who represented i- to u1e as one of the greatest works OF th- ! day When I was IWeEiy-oue. I tu-l- ] cd aver tO them one Ihi.d of my fa-- tune for that purpose Bat for years ! l have been trying to rid myself uf the l subtle overwhelming influence or tle : church which pre-ends not only Go th= ] privilege of being the Ou-y true churcE- 1 but of being alone able Go open the ! gates of heaven to a s3-rowfuI and sin
 tui world At last my honest Prutes-- : ant blood has asserted itself and I ua-- l forever repudiate and cast or -ghe T yoke of Rome. So sayIug tle mar
 quise politely dismissed nae.
 ! It will be remembered tEat Marquis l des MonsJirs AIerinville and her sis- ter. Baroness Won Zoodwilz- are dauga
 te-s or the lac William S Ca-dgse- a.rl
 his wife. vhO was B-eckinridEe cf Kentucky Shortly before his de1th- ] Mir Caldwell became a convert Co E1- man CathClicisn and left his children
 in the care of -he Irish Roman Cat1o-
 lies in New York whom his wife hal
 met iu church circles The vouue--
 
 a German n5bleman. a LutEer-u. an has since then also left the Roman Catholic COmmUnl ion The elder has
 been ia very bad health f0- some years.
 from having to occupy a position before
 the world as a prominent Roman Cl-h-
 Olic. which was not real one and t1
 which her extreme generosity led her. when young and inexperienced gi-L Now, al last. her own mind has as- serted itself and she returns GO the
 creed Of her ancestors
 Mary Gwendolin Caldweu Is m.
 daughter or William Shakesp-asr
 Caldwell. who. after being a theltriclI ! manager in England. settled in Rich mond. Va. and eventually made l
 large fortune in building gas houses in
 Chicago, St Louis Mobile and olher cities He married Miss RrecBiurIlz-e a famous Kentucky beauty Mss Caldwell an1 her sister Lina spent tho summers at Newport. where they had Q magnificent house. and usually [ passed a part Cf the winter. when the- were not abroad. in New York on l the death Of her father. Miss Caldwell. } inherited S2.ooo.0o8. On October 1s 3 1896, Miss Caldwell was married ra a Marquis des Nonstirs AIeriuVlI-e. a ! French nCblemla. in SL Joseph ? church avenue Hoche. Paris. by BIsh- ! op SpaIding. of Peoria. IIi- the guar- 2 dian and administrator of the estat= , of Miss Caldwell, assisted by Farhe- g Cooke.
 At the time of her marriage. Miss 9 Caldwell was a very hands me woman about 35 years old. and a devoted Eo- . man Catholic She had previously ly r shown her devotion to the church by l giving SS00.0c0 10 found the divinity 2 college Of the Roman Catholic Culver- sity in Washington Some seven years ] previous tc her marriage. Mss Cald- s well was engaged to Prince Murar- a { grandson of the king Of Naples Tha 2 engagement was broken because tl1s prince insisted that half or Miss Gala t wells fortune should be settled upCu - him.
 Miss Lima Caldtveu married Baron l Won ZoodWitz. who was killed on his 2 yacht August IS. 1896. while talinz r part in the races Of the royal Albert ! regatta. at Southsea. England as thg
 result cf collision with Emperor WI 3 Hams yacht Meteor The baron ycas g struck on. the head by a block OF a
 piece of the broken mast of his yacht and was unconscious when he was
 picked up. dying soon after