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| The Terrace chapter ot Job's Daughters, associated with
the Masonic Order, recently installed this years officers.
Dianna Larratt; Lisa Hall, Past Honored:

Left to right:

Tina Robson. -

Queen; Debbi Misfelat; Marlanna Halts, Sentor Princess:

- Valerie Misfeldt, Honored Queen; Laura Anderson, Junior
Princess; Darlene Anderson, Guide; Lara Taylors and

“Natural: gas tax. cut

. OTTAWA (CP) —. The prices al about 65 pér cent of government, “officials: were.
federal government will cut the. cost. Of erude oil at + unavailable late Wednesday:
‘a tax on natural. gas to . Toronto a . “mee . to explain’ exactly what the
ensure the domestic priceof : He ‘old Uae Coetatig ah impact will ‘be. nts
the product remains at low - announcement could: feo :
‘levels set by -the National "expected Boba APNEA SEE 4S -Donieatie’” atural-gad
Energy Program © and sales ‘totalled. about i .
‘agreements .: with the “Theprige of nai 7‘ billion “cubic “metres last:
producing provinces, - scheduled to i increat nr 25° year, hut prices vary across;
Finance: Minister: Marc . cents. per’ thousand cuble the country, rising further...
Lalonde said Wednesday. feetnext Tuesday according in the East because of:
‘Lalonde said officials are . to. pricing agreements Pipeline-transmiésion costs.
- studying what: changes will reached with: the wester .
“Provinces.
“While a lowering ‘ot the

The gas-pricing program,
’ wasestablished to en-.
‘courage conversion from oil:

~ Roman Catholic sect endures harsh times

MONTREAL (CP) — Since Gaston Tremblay folinded the

- North American branch of the Apostles of Infinite Love in

the early 1960s, the breakaway Roman Catholic sect-has |

been wracked by legal battles, by a disastrous fire, and by
accusations of child abuse and homosexuality.
But the sect has endured...

At Apostles’. headquarters, ‘the sprawling Magnificat - -:
‘monastery near the Laurentian village of St. Jovite, the .

numbér of. residents peaked at about 500 adults’ and. 150

~ children in 1976, when an unexplained fire destroyed part of

the buildings. Arson was allegedly the cause, but no arres{s |.

were made.

Sect spokesman Sister Michelle says about 400 adults and

35 children remain at the monastery, Outside, the sect

claims several: thousand . followers connected . with the 7
"> Apostles’ scattered “missions.”

Locations of the outside missions include Guatemala, ,
Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic,

Florida, upper New. York State, Vancouver, Winnipeg,
‘Toronto and a dozen Quebec towns, -

. says’ most of the ‘missions’ are little: more than: single

residences for sect members. a

The more elaborate. Central American missions, which
include schools and chapels, are staffed by sisters and
monks from the Magnificat. and lihked with St. Jovite

. through the sect's shortwave ham radio, There are frequent

; priestly’ vows and set out to establish traditionalist missions |
in Quebec. In 1958, he helped purchase the land that became

_ visits by Tremblay, known to believers as Father Jean .

Gregoire de Ja Trinite and the trie pope.

_- Disenchanted with the “bourgeois chureh;”” Tremblay .

left a Roman Catholic nursing order in 1956 without taking

the nionastery site.
_ Pour years later, Tremblay’ $ small flock came under the
sway of defrocked priest Michel Collin, whohad founded the
Apostles in the early 19508 in France and called himself
Pope. Glement KV...

Collin’s attacks on the chureh establishment and
liberalization found fertile ground in Québec; a devout
Roman Catholic society in the. throes of profound changes’

‘Imown as the Quiet Resvolution.

But in 1963, shortly before his death, the French leader
dismissed Tremblay after welfare investigators found that
children of the disciples at the. St. Jovite retreat: were
threatened and badly fed.

With Collin's death, Tremblay assumed the title of pope,
A bearded, lanky figure, Tremblay wears the brown robes

and skullcap of the male members of the seet and isa fiery —

‘speaker.

The defector says: “Father. Jean is like the God of the
monastery: His words are sacred. They can’t be

questioned, ”

- Tremblay recently told an interviewer in Winnipeg: a

am the Catholic church, Ihave truly, the Catholic church: in

my hands.
“Jesus told me, ‘You 3 are my vicar on earth of my. true

"

~-One resent defector;-who wished | to remain anonymous,

church-. .. the church in Rome is no longer my. trive ehur-
ch. ee .

Tremblay said he had his first vision of Christ at the age :

‘of 13 and they -continiie to this day... --°
“We want to stand ? for all the old traditions of the
church.”

Children and adults are strictly segregated dat the spartan ;
cinderblock-and- timber monastery in St: Jovite. Monks and .
_ sisters swear vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
The grounds contain: ‘dormitories, a chapel, community 7

halls, a- printshop; - ‘garages, ‘a: tall, radio ‘anterina;
‘storehouses and.a- -contral' post on ‘the Secondary foad that

studded fence and the defector says sentries patrol at night,
“armed with ‘crucifixes and. rosaries.” we
‘Like Quebec Catholic ‘schools of the..1950s;- ‘classes. for

children at the. monastery emphasize the lives of the saints,

-eatechisms, and some: math. French. and geography..In
"1974, Education Department: officials found the eurrieulm

het “minimum” provincial standards, -.

“he tides welt he sed gee de fe cin erhay eet ied

However the school never received a. permit, Sister

Gente 04, Men

school now “would be ridiculous,” she says,: “because our
students are_so much better educated than’ ‘those on the

- outside."

“They know we'll cause an’ woutery, if {inspectors} show
up. w : Te

No total figure j is available on the sact’ 's wealth, but the
value: of: its real estate holdings in Quebec: alone was .

estimated more than $600, 000 in 1979. Because of the group's
status as a non-profit Feligious organization, it t pays, no

taxes on its revenues.

the" defector sald -the Apostes are ‘ctirrently eon
‘céntrating on recruiting elderly. amembers, who sometimes |

donate their homes, pensions and savings to the sect in
exchange for care.

Individual members of the sect’s “pegging” teams _ who
give calendars, books of postcards and religious pamphlets
“in thanks" for donations —can collect up to se a flay,” the
defector added.

. Sister Michelle ‘gays donations are minimal, ‘eéht by cent ‘

— these aren't enormous sums.”

-. ‘No charges have ever resulted from ‘allegations ‘of child
abuse or homosexual activity involving minors.

Jean-Guy Myre, a spokesman for’ Quebec's Youth .
Protection Committee, says lawyera felt the testimony of .

young former members might not stand up in court and
officials are wary of being accused of religious persecution.
“It's a touchy. issue,” he says. .

‘Sister Michelle contends the charges were part of a

_ smear campaign: ‘When you want to destroy ‘Someone, an

easy way is to involve children. It’s a tactic.”
‘Adults tending children at the monastery are forbidden to

hit them, she Bays, but admits frayed nerves can sometimes ;

Disease causes miscarriages.

- HALIFAX (CP) — The transmission of a | disease which
causes spontaneous abortions and stillbirths has baffled the

_ Sharpest minds of the medical profession for years, but a

sleuth from Georgia says luck helped solve the riddle of of.

_ an outbreak of listeriosis in Nova Scotia.

‘Dr. Walter Schlech, called upon during an epidemic two.
years ago, recounted In an interview how the illness of a
tourist finally led him to the source — cabbage grown in
contaminated sheep manure.

The disease, found mainly in cows and. sheep and com-
monly knowr-as “‘circting didease or “the staggers”,

. rarely affects humans, But in'1981, 41 cases were reported...

ms

Five resulted In spontaneous abortion and four in. stillbir-
ths; Six of 23 seriously ill infants died.
The Centre for Disease Control: in Atlanta, Ga., bent

' epldemlologiat: ‘Sehlech to Halifax to join in an, intensive

study of possible causes.
“It was my turn to investigate. an outbreak in the field,"

said Schlech, now an assistant professor of ‘medicine at -

Dalhousie University in Halifax... : we
The bacteria of listeriosis ia frequently found in. ‘gol,
water and yegetation.* |

poisoning. Susceptibility increases during pregnancy and
the result can be a -sttibirth, abortion or a devastating
septic illness in the newborn infant, 10:

Schlech, working with a provincial. epidemiologist and
.two members of the Dalhousie faculty of medicine, sur-

veyed the affected people, taking details of medical, oc- .

cupational, travel, gardening activities nd exposure {6

5 winds by the site. The read is bordered by a. barbed-wire ©

Michelle says. For. government: inspectors ‘to check the -

- animals, A food survey produced ho common factor in the

diet of affected adults.

- The admiaaion of an eldery’ -Ontario vacationer to a -
> Halifax’ hospital provided the luck that Schlech said Is part

of most: investigations.

Tests on the patient revealed listeria ‘in his sputum and -

_ blood. He was able to provide details of his diet during the 10
days he had been .in the city.

He: and. his wife. had prepared their own meals and
refrigerated ‘the leftovers, including a brand of coleslay

made of carrots and cabbage.

“The bacteria, Listeria monocytogenes, was isolated from 7

’ the commercially prepared coleslaw, ‘distributed cnly to

supermarkets in the three’ Marititne provinces, The .

- listeriosis epidemic had also been confined | to the
Maritimes.

Sehtech “visited the ‘plant where: ‘the: ‘coleslaw was
processed and determined the contamination had occ
_ earlier, possibly at‘the farm level. That meant: tracking
down the wholesalers and all the farmers who supplied the

.  edleslaw vegetables. ‘ “af
In adults, it cam cause bacterial meningitis ‘and: blood _

Schlech sought the help’ of Maritime veterinatians, wito
_ keep track of listeriosis cases in cattle'and sheep. .-"t.
--The name-of one farmer appeared on-a. list of farmeys

who had provided the processing plant with eabbages dhd'
on a list of those whose animals had suffered listeriosis, .
Schlech visited the farm and discoveréd raw. sheep

manure was used Lo fertilize the fields and that in 1980,
some é of thet manure cama + fram: an infected floék. “

‘members and boys, Sister Michelle says: There's a saying —

' chanted members, parents seeking their children, police
then .. claimed _ custody of his three children. After v
‘challenging the conviction in the Supreme Court of Canada ‘s KI SM. 7 THE R oe

ctime visiting various missions, returning regularly to St.

*' There have been people inth the past who tried to destroy

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lead to alaps or Spankings. Because Apostles are involved,
such incidents become “a crime,” she says,
As for accusations of homosexual liaisons between adult,

in French, ‘That: ifsomeone: wants to kill his horse, he'll find: -
an illness.’ All those. allegations. were never made under
oath and they: were never proved.”

» The Apostles have waged running battles with disen-

and youth protection officials.

In 1978, Tremblay was found guilty of forcibly detaining =“ oT
the children of Bill ‘Currier, a disciple who left the sect and

and losing, Tremblay served four months.of his two-year

sentence: He was released in ‘March, 981... :
Currier was reunited with one of his children, but. stil ;

doesn’t know where ‘the two others are ‘living. _
Sister Michelle says ‘Tremblay. how spends much of his’

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