The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-13
10 BECOME CATHOLICS
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean
Will Soon Enter Catholic Fold.

/ WIZ ANll W. = LAHaNA lNANI MkLIaN
Will Soon Enter Catholic Fold.
Washington. Feb. n.-Mr and
Mrs, EDWARD Beale Mclean. the lat
ter formerly Miss Evelyn Walsh,
daughter and sole heiress OF Thomas
+. Walsh Of Denver and Washington.
have given society another surprise.
and are likely to be again the most
talked-of young couple in Washington,
Just as they were on the occasion of
their unconventional wedding last
August
Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean have confded
to their intimate friends that they,
propose shortly TO enter the Roman
Catholic Church, and are now under
daily instruction in the doctrines of
the Church In the case of Mrs. Nc
Lean her coming profession Of faith
can hardly be described as a CONVEX
sion, as she was baptised in the Cath
Ole Church in her infancy, and has
never protested in any way against
the doctrines she has merely failed
to observe.
She has spent more than half her
life in Washington, was educated in
the private schools of this city and
by gOvernesses and masters In Paris,
but unlike many of her contemporary
les in Washington society. has never
known the influence of a convent
school Hence the return TO her
fathers faith is regarded as all the
more remarkable The first intima-
/ ton of this return was given at a re-
cent dinner party where Edward Nc
Lean and his bride, who have only re-
Gently returned from abroad were in
vited to meet Cardinal Gibbons.
AS the most popular young couple
in resident society in which each had
played a leading role, they had been
invited to many other dinners, but de-
clined them all. They accepted that
of Gen AMI Mrs. Draper, and as
consequence We're presented to the
Cardinal as being DESTROYS of enter
ing the fold Of which he is the SUI
preme director in America.
Since then both young people have
redoubled their study of Catholic doc
trine and. according TO present plans
will be formally received into the
church during the Lenten season.
The place of this interesting cere-
mony is still undecided the possibility
of its taking place In Rome being at
present considered. 1t was in Rome,
according to her own admission, that
Mrs. Mclean first turned serious
thought TO the ancient faith. and In
Rome when barely IL that she re-
solved to some time return TO the
practice OF that faith which her
father still processes.
During the long and painful illness
following the automobile accident at
Newport four years ago, when her on
| " brother lost his life, she gave con.
siderable thought to the subject, but
until her last visit to Europe with her
husband she failed to come to any
definite conclusion on the subject
MIR. Mclean, like his wife, is the
lonly child of very rich parents, being
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John r Nc
Lean of this city and Cincinnati He
Is only one year the senior of his wife
and like her has spent most of his life
IN Washington, with annual visits
abroad. His maternal grandfather
| Nao liit icilt Nftlls Dtdit VI AillA Nitss
and through his mother he is des-
cendant of the Truxtuns and other
prominent Colonial families of Vir-
ginia and Maryland.
Should the much mentioned young
people not go abroad in the next few
weeks. it is believed they will make
their profession Of faith in st. Mat
thews church on Rhode Island avenue
which. in addition to being the most
fashionable place OF Catholic worship
IN Washington. with Mgr. Thomas s.
Lee, as its rector, is the church Of the
parish in which both the Walsh and
Mclean homes are situated.