The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25
LoWenstein Had Titles and
Wealth, But Forsakes All
For His Religion.
EXALTED IN NOBILITY
STORY OF THE LIFE OF THE RE-
MARKAHLE GERMAN READS
LIKE A ROMANCE DEvoTEs
LIFE TO CHARITY.

Clogne, Oct. 24.-Prince Car Lowten-
stein has taken the vows Of monk at
the Dominican monastery Venlo on the
Dutch frontier. Cardinal archbishop
OF Cologne received In private audi
ence, a certain Dominican monk named
Brother Raymond, and the prince of
the church and the poor monk remain
ed long time in private prayer.
Brother Raymond, bent double with
fasting and severe penance, with ema-
ciated face and transparent skin and
with that far away look of other word
illness in his face which SO many per-
sons detached from all terrestrial inter
ests assume, was none other than
Prince Carl zu Lowenstein.
This prince, who has left the world
to devote the remainder of his days
to the service Of his master, probably
is without exception the most exalted
person among the select nobility of the
German. fatherland. 1t would not be
far out of the way to say that he oc-
cupies a position among them similar
to that occupied by the duke of Nor
folk In England.
Spent Life for Charity.
OF the Hottest birth, of the widest
possessions, of unblemished character,
with crusading princes and kings
among his ancestors, owning vast lands
and forests and mines and palaces,
with life spent in deeds of charity
and friendliness to the poor and needy,
he has sought at the end of his days
that peace which the world cannot
give.
When he was in the world he was
known as Prince Carl Heinrich zu
Lowenstein-W ertheim- Rochefort. He
was duke and an excellency, seren-
ity and high born," before whom
men bowed in the greatest respect. He
was born "A years ago in the magnifi-
cent palace at Hald, in Bohemia, with
in easy walking distance of the place
where the famous Bohemian reformer,
John Huss first saw the light. His
youth and adolescence were spent in
the usual way until the change came
which made him a religious man and
turned his thoughts to the church.
His father was proud, worldly.
grand seigneur, soldier, and a dip
lomat, immersed in affairs of state
and burdened with the care OF his
tremendous possessions, scattered all
over Europe, SO he opposed his sons
plans of entering the church, and mar
ried him to Princess Adelheid zu lsen-
burg. His wife did not live long, but
long enough to turn her husbands
away from the church and to interest
him in the world.
Two years after he became wild
over he again married. this time a
woman of quite another character.
She was Princess Sophie Won und gu
Leichtenstein, a nun at heart, wom-
an of intense piety, who should have
lived in the day Of Catherine of Sienna
rather than amid the turbulent world
liness of this century. They retired
from the world and shut themselves up
in one or another of their numerous
castles.
OF the six children who were the
fruit of this union. one is a poor sister
of charity OF st. FRANCESCA OF Aacnen,
another is Benedictine nun at Ryde
in the Isle of Wight, third is a nun
In a lonely convent among the noun
tains of Bohemia, and a fourth is the
prior of a Hungarian convent of the
Btrictest rule.
For more than twenty years the man
who has now taken tho vows Of the
Dominicans has not seen any of these
four children. He used to write to
them on their saints days and comfort
them with the thought that they would
one day meet in paradise.
A baron. count, a prince. duke
of the holy Roman empire, duke
and prince Of Austria, prince OF eGr-
many: his breast loaded with orders,
including the much coveted Golden