SOLDIER PRIESTS
IN THE FRENCH ARMY • • IIIGH MASS IN TRENCHES . ■ ••New-York, December 18. . • 'TKiee New; Zealand Marist priests , '(Dean- ■ Regnault and Fathers Holley and. Kennedy), who have arrived at San ...Francisco., from .the front, state that-a French Army captain; who is «lso a priest, ctills ■ to his- men Absolution; when'they are about to charge -the' .enemy.-" It is nothing; they; 'say, to...seo;.High Mass' celebrated .in; [the Itreiichos during- a' lull in the fighting. , ■The-celebrants are soldiers who doff ■ •their.l warlike!. accoutrements and .don priestly garb. Immediately Mass, is ended ! the • priests discard their robes and buckle on their fighting uniforms.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 6
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100SOLDIER PRIESTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 6
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