NATALIA OF SERBIA , BECAME NUN 15 May 1859 – 8 May 1941
NATALIA OF SERBIA , BECAME NUN 15 May 1859 – 8 May 1941 The whiplash of an angry cabdriver laid across the face of a gentle nun has revealed the forgotten experience of ex-Queen Natalie of Serbia, the most tragic Queen in Europe. The cabdriver was brutally beating an old horse on a street of the Montparnasse quarter – a horse cab in Paris, by the way, is a strange survival from the past. A crowd began to gather. Among them was an elderly woman in the garb of a Sister of Mercy. As the lash fell upon the miserable beast she stepped forward and held up a hand in protest, gently rebuking the cab man and bidding him stop. For an answer, he diverted the blow intended for the horse, and laid the lash cruelly against the nun’s face! Now the crowd interfered, and gendarmes dragged the driver from his seat. The Sister of Mercy went with them to the police station. There she simply gave her name as Sister Natalie. She asked mercy for the cab man, if he wo...