MY APOLOGIES, St. Anne interest group - I was mistaken in remembering that the Rev. Chiniquy's niece was a nun; she was simply one of the Chiniquys who had stayed with the Roman Catholic church and happened to live in Montreal. If you are saving these transcriptions and commentary, PLEASE CHUCK THE FIRST PART ONE THAT I SENT AND REPLACE IT WITH THIS ONE. THANKS ! [begin corrected letter] Here's the article I promised Bill la Fountain some time ago - didn't find it till this minute. It had been given me by my cousin Margaret Bedard along with other papers. But I think most everyone will be interested, since this is part of the continuing story of the division of the St. Anne area community due to Fr. C.P.T. Chiniquy's rejection of the Roman Catholic church (and its rejection of him) and his establishment of the Christian Catholic Church in 1859. It is probably not surprising that those who blamed Chiniquy for the upheaval and ill will and family acrimony and feuds that were the results of those actions would like to have seen Chiniquy recant and repent and want to return to the RC church. The Church, too, had a vested interest in showing that Chiniquy subsequently realized he had been wrong and a failure as a leader and that he now feared the torments of a Roman Catholic hell. Well, it developed that one of Chas. Chiniquy's nieces, a daughter of Achille Chiniquy, lived in Montreal. This was my Aunt Arthemise, who had married George Parent. The story went that she was instructed [by whom?] to try to gain entry to the Montreal location where the Rev. Chiniquy was thought to be on his deathbed, in the hope and expectation that she could be a witness to his recanting the faith he had embraced and seeking again to embrace Roman Catholicism. I'll return to this story later, as I have some papers that relate to her visits. To end any suspense: Charles Chiniquy maintained to the end his faith in the protestant beliefs he had outlined in founding the new church, and he died peacefully in his bed, full of years (90) and honors. But anyway, there were those who pursued the very members of the Christian Catholic Church (which in its St. Anne identity became Presbyterian) to see if any would turn back to their old beliefs when death approached. The newspapers, which at that time could and did print just about anything without fear of reprisal, were hungry for this kind of stuff and were not above inventing it where reality did not provide enough zing. (Wasn't this around the time the Hearst papers single-handedly manufactured the Spanish-American War out of whole cloth?) Of course, some of what the papers wrote might actually have been true. So now you have the background for what this clipping tells us about the Rev. La Fountaine - who is not related to Bill of this list, so far as I understand, but for the co-incidence of the surname. The clipping is dated 18 March 1903, Kankakee Daily Republic. But I've gone on too long and will have to send you part 2 tomorrow. [end corrected letter]