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Show I Boy Converted on Death Bed. (Newark Monitor.) I On Wednesday of this week was laid I tit rest a sterling Christian, who, I though but 11 years old, on his death- J I wd became a Catholic. The lad. John j I Thite, a pupil at St. Vincent's acad- my, was stricken suddenly ill last vi-k at the academy. He gnw so sick l tfia: Dr. Hagerty ordered him removed ;o the- City hospital. Before he went, ; though, his long pelt-up desire to be- f conip a Catholic became very evident, , and hp insisted upon being baptized a I Catholic. It seems that ihe lad had t intended for quite some time to become a eon vert. The sisters in charge of the I academy wrote his mother, explaining . the i'ov's desire. The noiiicr, Mrs. I George B. Ellis of 229WitForly- f fifth street. Manhattan, to satisfy the I lad. eranted his request. He had set i March 1 as the date, but when he knew j that his condition was serious lie asked ? that th Sacrament of Baptism as v.- 11 I as the last rites of the churcn be :jd- I lriiliivTorc-rl tu him Hp wsi l.annv afthr I that and met death like a saint, a pure whit soul destined for heaven. |