Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1904 — MARQUISE ABANDONS ROME [ARTICLE]

MARQUISE ABANDONS ROME

Mlts M. G. Caldwell That Once Created a Stir iu the Religious World at Home and Abroad. New York, Nov. 10.—Marquise des Monstiers Merinville, who was Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, and so devoted a Roman C&tbolie that slie gave $300,000 to found the Roman Catholic university at Washington, has caused to be published a statement that she has renounced the Roman Catholic church forever. In her statement she saysthat “since I have been living In Europe my eyes have been opened to what that churcli really is,” and that “At last my honest Protestant blood has asserted Itself.” She was a relative of the famous Breckinridge family of Kentucky, her father, an Englishman, who settled in this country, having married a Miss Breckinridge, a Kentucky belle. He left his daughter $2,000,000.