Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — Insult Pope in Private Chapel. [ARTICLE]

Insult Pope in Private Chapel.

Catholics at Rome are incensed at an act of sacrilege committed in th? pope’s private chapel during the celebration of mass by bis holiness. The congregation numbered about tw > hundred. All afterward partook o' holy communion. Among them we e two women and a man who had been admitted oh the strong res-ommenda-tion of the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the Vatican. While the pope was administering the sacrament these three were seen to remove the wafers from their mouths. One of the women was seen actually spitting It out on the floor. The pope was horrified and the of fenders were immediately expelled from the chapel. They were recognized by an ambassador who w s present and they admitted they we.? Jews. Later they were identified a< Professor Feilbogen of the University of Vienna and his wife and slster-lu law.