The People of a Spanish Town Made Mad by Their Faith.
A Madrid telegram of July 23 says: "A very extraordinary case is about to come before the high tribunal of Malago. A few months ago a woman, a native of the village of Torrax, declared that the Virgin Mary had appeared to her and had ordered her to preach the new gospel for the salvation of mankind, as the end of the world was at hand. The woman's story seems to have been believed without hesitation, and soon the whole village was in a state of religious frenzy. The woman preached in favour of the abandonment; of earthly possessions, and advocated a return to the mode of life and habits of primitive man. During the height of the frenzy a large fire was lighted in the village, into which the converts to this fantastic superstition threw their valu-
ables, furniture and clothes, men, women and children dancing and'shoutirfg around the fire iv u state of nudity. Being warned of what was goin^ on, the local gendarmery arrived only just m time to save the infants from being thrown into tho fire by their frenzied mothers, and to prevent the houses of the village from being sot on fire."
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 218, 3 September 1887, Page 3
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209The People of a Spanish Town Made Mad by Their Faith. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 218, 3 September 1887, Page 3
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