THE WORLD FORSWORN.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 291, 21 November 1936, Page 2

THE WORLD FORSWORN.

NOTED SCHOLAR’S DECISION. INMATE OF DESERT MONASTERY. LONDON, October 11. Father Anastaes Marie de Sain* Elie, the Carmelite M.B.E. and Chevalier of the. Legion of Honour, one of the greatest living authorities on. the Arabic language, and a member oi half a dozen learned societies, has forsworn the world, says the Cairo correspondent of the Sunday Express. From his monk’s cell in the Carmelite Monastery at Baghdad he has written a last letter to Dr. Shakhashirl, his friend in Cairo. Desert Monastery, VT' I '’! “I have spent a fortnight in meditation,” he writes. ‘‘My superior has ordered me to go to some desert monastery outside Iraq, and I have decided to keep my lips sealed until my last hour of life. “Don’t reply, for letters will not be forwarded. “Farewell.” Anastase is seventy-two. Onlj himself and the Abbot kww the whereabouts of the monastery where he will spend the last yoftrs of his life. Efforts are being made tc persuade the Abbot to prevent the scholar from going.