NUN WITH SECOND SIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3411, 30 December 1911, Page 4

NUN WITH SECOND SIGHT.

IN HER CELL DESCRIBED MURDER OF PRESIDENT AND KING. For half a century Sister Frey, a Swiss nun, who is now seventy-five, has had to keep 'her bed in a cell in the Cistercian Abbey at Viterbo owing to an injury to her spinal cord- She is, by her own desire, celebrating the golden jubilee of the injury, and Pope Pius X., has sent her. an autograph letter of admiration. The Pope has chosen Cardinal Cassatt* as the hearer of the autograph letter, in which he praises her for her wonderful Christian resignation, and laments his own inability to make a pilgrimage to her abode. He delegates the Cardinal Legate to celebrate the Mass in her cell in his stead. Sister Frey is credited with, extraordinary powers as a clairvoyant©, and this rrift of prophecy and second sight has long brought a continuous stream of bishops, cardinals, and noble ladies to visit her in her convent cell, where by the special dispensation of the Pope Mass is allowed to be celebrated- _ . Not only does she reveal to her visitors matters affecting their personal interests, hut she is said to have predicted to thus X. many things concerning the events of his Pontificate. Two of her most amazing feats have been a vivid clairvoyant©- narrative to the assembled sisters of the assassination of President. Carnot, and more recently of King Humbert, at Mouca, whilst those blood-curdling tragedies were actually talcing place.