The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-16

 ROMANISM MaTquise dtS MsnSteireS'S
 Announcement. FOUNDER OF 4 COLLEGE rndnued thA cofholir IIuivAr-
FOUNDER OF \ COLLEGE
Endowed the Catholic Uniycr-
 sity at Washington.
CIergymen st tIs Capital Dxprsss ssr- prise ss the Action and csnnecs is witA ths wasssnan
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New York, Nov. 1s.--Jrhe Associated Press has received the following. Be- fore giving 1t publicity its authority has fully verified by cable from Rome;
 Rome. November iA 1904. Editor of thl Associated Press:
 You have my full permission to print the enclosed and give 1t as wide pub lication as possible. Yours truly. lSigned) Marauise Des Mcnsteires.
 Dear Editor-It may interest some of your readers to know that the Marquise des Monsteires Merinvil1e formerly Miss M. c. Caldwell who 1t will be re- membared, founded the Roman Catholic University at Washington. some years ago. has entirely repudisted her form CT creed. Tn an interview with me the other day she said;
 "sYes, 1t is true that I have left the Roman Catholic Church. Since have been living in Europe my eyes have been opened to what that church really Is. and to it's anything but sanctity- But the trouble goes much further back than this. Being naturally re- ligious my imagination was carly caught by the idea of doing something to lift the church from the iowly posi- tion which it occupied in America. so I thought of a university or higher school. where it's clergy could be edu- cated and if possibl. refined.
 Infinenced by Bishop.
 'Of course in this was merely in- fiuenced by Bishop Spalding of Peria. who represented it to me as one of the greatest works of the day. When I was 2l turned over to them one-third of my fortune for that purpose But for years have been trying to rid my self of the subtle overwhelming infiu- ence of a church which pretends. not only to the privilege of being the only true church but of being alone able to open the gates of heaven to sorrow- fli, sinful world. At last my honest protestant blood has asserted itself and I now forever repudiate and cast of the yoke of Romat'
 It, will be remembered that the Mar- duise 6es Msmsteares Merinvills ana her sisters. the Baroness Won zedwits are are the daughters of the late Wii- liam s. Caldwell and his wife was a Breckinridge, of Kentucky. ShortA ly before his deaht. MT. Caldwell be- came a convert to Roman Catholicism and left his children to the care of Irish Roman Catholics in New York, whom his wife had met in church cir cles. The younger sister married fif- teen years ago. a German nobleman, a lulHCEduf anu naS GinCC tnCA AAco &GAA the Roman Catholic communion.
 Returns to old Greed.
 The elder has been in very poor health for some years, from having to occupy a position before the world as prominent Roman Catholic which was not a real one. and into which her generosity led her as a young and inexperienced girl Now at last her own mind has asserted itself and she returns to the creed of her ancestors.
 story of the CaIdweIIs.
 Mary Gwendolin Caldwell is the daughter of William Shakespeare Cald- well, who after being theatrical manager in England settled in Rich mond. Va, and eventually made q for tune in building gas plants in St. Louis, Chicago, Mobile and other cit- ies. He married Miss BreckinriEgs. famous Kentucky beauty. Miss Caldwell and her sister Lima. spent the summers in Newport. where they had a magnificent house and usually passed part of the winter when they were not abroad in New York. On the death of her father Miss Caldwell inc herited S2,0O0, ,000 and in 1896 Miss Caldwell was married to the Marquis des Monsteires Merinville, a French nobIeman, in St. Joseph's Church. Avenue HIche. Paris, by Bishop Saplding, of Peoria. H.. the guardian and administrator of the estate of Miss Caldwell assisted by Father Cooke.
 At the time of her marriage Miss Caldwell was very handsome woman about 35 years old and 8 devoted shown her devotion to the church by giving Ss00.000 to fund the Divinity College of the Roman Catholic Univer- sity in Washington. Some seven years previous to her marriage Miss Campbell was engaged to Prince Muriat, grand son of the King of Naples. The en- gagement was broken because the prince insisted that half of Miss Cald- wells fortune should be settled upon him.
 Miss Lima Caldwell married Baron Won Zedwitz, who was killed on his yacht Isolde August IS, 1896, while taking part in the races of the Royal Albert regatta at South Sea. England. as a result of collision with Emperor williams yacht, Meteor.
 Death of Won Zedwitz.
 The Baron was struck on the head by a block or a piece of broken mast of his yacht and was unconscious when picked up. dying soon after Baron Won Zedwitz was a brilliant young man who had held a number oi diplomatic appointments including thS secretaryship of the German tempora missions at Washington. St. Petersburg Tokto in 1888. He was appointed Min ister of Morocco. While in the Unite, States he became a convert to yachtini and commissioned the Herreshoffs t, build him a twenty-footer in which h. met his death.
 Little was known of the Marquis de Monstieres Merinville at the time of hi marriage to Miss Caldwell with tn exception of the fact that he wa chronicled in 'Annuaire de NobIess" a dating his title from l754, the rank O count having been given to his an cestors in 1756.
 | CIergymen Surprised.
 l Washington, Nov. 15.-Prominen members of the Catholic clergy il Washington tonight expressed sur prise at the announcement from Rom that the Marquise des Monsteires for merly Miss Caldwell and founder the Catholic University here renoun ced the Catholic faith. In fact the! | aha fOFmPf