From Trance to Death.
An extraordinary case of trance fol lowed by a melodramatic death is reported from the convent of Saint Anne, at Aversa, near Naples, where, the Rome correspondent of the " Newcastle Chronicle " says, a nonagenarian nun, named Sister Josephine, apparently expired after an acute attack of pneumonia, and after being placed in the coffin was borne into the convent chapel, where the bier was placed before the altar surrounded by lighted candles,, AH night the nuns knelt in prayer, around the remains of their departed sister, and next morning a raquiem mass was being said, wben suddenly the supposed dead nun say holt upright in her coffin. The nans fled in terror, and the body relapsed to the recumbent position, and when a doctor, who had been summoned, proceeded to examine, death was found to huve taken place, possibly from fright."
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 22 September 1904, Page 5
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144From Trance to Death. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 22 September 1904, Page 5
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