In days as a curate, an odd request came from a woman in the parish. Estranged from her Husband and having three children of teenage years, she was surprised to receive communication that her husband was seeking an Annulment of their marriage from the Roman Catholic church, to which he belonged. An annulment is a statement that a marriage was invalid through some defect in the process and therefore never actually existed. The grounds for annulment were that there had been mistaken identity and the people son married was not …