HISTORIC SEANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 227, 25 September 1928, Page 7

HISTORIC SEANCE.

ST. AGNES' MARTYRDOM

Medium In Catacombs Relates

Age-Old Scenes.

ACCEPTED BTOEY 'CONFIRMED. ,

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

ROME, September 24

An attempt was made to revisualise historic events at an extraordinary seance. It recalled the martyrdom of St. Agnes, who was executed A.D. 309. The seance was conducted by Mr. Price, director of a psychic laboratory in London, with a medium, in the depths of the catacomb*. The medium related 11 scenes which partly corroborated the accepted story of the death of St. Agnes. The medium said he saw the Saint as a girl of 13 imprisoned under the Colosseum where soldiers attempted to assault her. She was then dragged out and stabbed. In another vision the medium said h« saw St. Agnes teaching children in a marble hall. Soldiers entered and arrested her and then imprisoned her. The scene changed and the medium said ho saw a multitude rushing toward the Saint. The people stopped and listened to her expounding the Scriptures. In other scenes the medium said lie saw St. Agnes engaged in the construction of a Christian church appear with her parents in a public building in the midst of a multitude and intense commotion.