Lourdes: 'Possessed woman kills mother with crucifix
<http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/269865>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/269865 By Richard James. A disturbing case in France. A French woman who thought that she was possessed by the Devil has murdered her elderly mother with a crucifix. The killing took place in the Catholic site of pilgrimage Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees. French media<http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/societe/20090325.OBS0582/lourdes__une_vieille_dame_assassinee_a_coups_de_crucifi.html> reported the case on Wednesday. 'I had visions in a dream. I saw that I was the Devil,' said the 34-year old woman to police officers after her arrest. Her apartment in Lourdes was replete with crucifixes. She killed her 81-year old mother with one of the crucifixes and a lamp. After the murder on Monday evening she telephoned the authorities who found her smeared with blood. The woman has been committed to a psychiatric hospital. Lourdes is a world famous place of pilgrimage in the south of France drawing millions of Catholics every year in the hope of being cured of their ailments. This would happen after a visit to the cave where the Virgin Mary appeared to the desperately ill Bernadette Soubirous in the nineteenth century. In 1933, Bernadette, who died at age thirty-five, was beatified by Pope Pius XI. <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Custom Faith-based U.S. Postage <*}}}>< + <*}}}>< <http://astore.amazon.com/halthekin-20>Catholic on Amazon <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/on+allposters+today.html>on AllPosters today <*}}}>< + <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Kingdom!<*}}}>< + "A person is a person, no matter how small." Dr. Seuss --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Catholics-on-Fire May the blessing of Jesus and our Blessed Mother be with you -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
