A Nun's Romance

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 142, 23 May 1890, Page 3

A Nun's Romance

A. romantic story of the elopement and marriage Of a nun from Notre Dame O>llege, in San Francisco, has just .come to light, lister Margaret Mary was the name which Cora la Thanune assumed two years ago when «he topkythe black veil and became a teacher in Notre Dame College, which is opposite the old mission Dolores Ohurcbjj in the suburbs. Her father is a French, florist, and she. has two «ißters, one married. The unmarried lister, Berthe, was recently engaged to Charles Perkins an iron moulder: Berthe and her betrothed paid several visits to Cora, and young Perkins seemed greatly struck with the nun. Berthe noticed bis infatuation, and they quarrelled on the day the three went together to inspect the new house which Purkins was furnishing for his intended bride. Berthe's jealously flamed out, and she asked him to decide between them. He «hose the nun, and the younger sister acquiesced. One stormy night the convent sisters found that Margaret Mary had disappeared: They could get no clue to her, but at last she was found in the new cottage with her husband. From this story and: that j of the sister, it seemed. Cora obtained a dispensation from the Mother Superior releasing.. her from .her vows, and also one from" the Archbishop. They kept her secret. They were married, and, after a brief honeymoon, returned to the house t.Kat had been furnished for the younger sister.