CHAPLAIN BROUGHT BY AEROPLANE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 9

CHAPLAIN BROUGHT BY AEROPLANE.

"The Holy Viaticum' by Acroplano" is a heading 'sufficiently sensational . to attract tho . attention • of. tho ■ most casual render, but it seems to be a record of fact., A correspondent of "La Croix" tells tho story as follows: ."During a reconnaissance by tho French against the louareg of; tho Sahara, Commandant Largeot was mortally wounded. Feeling that ho was dying, : this bravo officer asked for the assistanoo of a priest. The column, unfortunately, had no oliaplain, and Laghouat, tho nearest placo where there is a resident priest, was over one hundred and twenty miles away Across the trackless desert. But necessity is the mother of invention. A bright ; ddca struck Lieutenant Bregard: ho would go to Laghouat in his monoplane. Having obtained leave to go, ho flow off, and some tours later returned carrying , with him the chaplain of the hospital, who brought the Holy Viaticum. Thus' Commandant Largeot was able to receive before ho died the consolations of religion, which he receiv-1 cd with most edifying sentiments." This incident is a further striking testimony to the devoteduoss of tho priests, who are ready to dare all in the service of'the dying.—"The Tablet," London.