The Irish standard., 1915-05-01
A SKETCH OF ANNA LOWRY--EX NUN

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Ex-Nun Anna NJ. Lowry, self-styled
Martyr in Black" and APPLY called by
the Guthrie Leader, July Is, 1911, the
Tramp Num-" was in Little Rock this
week delivering a series of anti-Cath-
Ollie lectures in which she attacked, as
severely as she knew how, the Catho-
lie converts. This living martyr"
certainly merits the name of tramp
num-" and If experience counts for
anything, she should have fair
knowledge of converts and convent
life, for she lived in nine different
converts in widely separated parts
of the United States and Europe,
having begun her checkered career
in England.
Though she does not admit it, bap-
tismal records produced as evidence in
court, and which were not successful
ly contradicted to show that Anna NJ.
Lowry was born in Clean, N. Y, in
1857, which makes her So years old.
She first entered the convent of
the Holy Cross and Passion in Bolton,
England, where she remained for
about six years. Here she was dis
satisfied and left, but not to remain
outside the walls" of the so-called
prisons. From here she went to the
Convent of Mercy at Bermondsey,
London. She remained here only a
short time. She claims to have been
overworked and underpaid, but the
fact remains that the superior of this
convent gave her money, enabling her
to return to America.
Coming back to the United States
she entered the convent of Borden
town, N. ]. She remained with this
community for almost year. From
New Jersey she went, of her own &C.
cord, to Buffalo, N. Y, and gained ad-
mission into the convent conducted
by the Sisters of st. Joseph. After
another year she was again adrift,
looking for some other convent where
she could have things her own way.
Next she went to Sunny, Fla, and
Joined the Benedictine Sisters of San
Antonio. She remained here only
seven months and then went to Pilot
Grove, Mo. From there she winged
her flight to Illinois and entered an
other convent of the Benedictine Sis
tiers at Nauvoo; after a short stay
here she went to another convent at
Paris, Ill. And though she is no long
er nun, she keeps up her custom
of going about from place to place.
These meanderings will serve to
show at least two things: What a
globe trotter" the nun was, and how
she was the 'freest of prisoners" On
the 18th of March, 1904, she entered
the convent at Guthrie, Okla, where
she took the veil and final vows and
became nun of the Order of the
Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred
Heart. Here she willingly remained
until June 20, 1911, when, for the
ninth time, she left her convent home
Though she had left the convent,
she went through the streets of Guth'
RE in the garb of Sister begging
money from Catholics and Protestants
until Father Standaert warned the
public, through the Guthrie Leader
that Sister (?) Justina-for that was
her name as a nun-had no author
ity to solicit money in the guise of q
Benedictine Sister, and that as such
she should not be recognized. This
put an end to her career in Guthrie
and soon thereafter she bobbed uI
at Aurora, Mo-, an employee of the
Menace.
Evidently lacking a religious voca
tion and not being able to brook au
thority, Miss Lowry was failure as 6
nun, and after twenty years of con
vent life she married. Through hel
anti-Catholic writings Miss Lowr,
found favor, as she does now by he1
lectures, with the enemies of the
Catholic church. She formed the &C
Quaintance of one w. r. Cunningham
whom she married soon after a
Sprague, Wash. Although she hat
taken the vow of perpetual chastity
| she did not keen her VOW. Why she