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Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, a Narrative of Her Sufferings in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk a Narrative of Her Sufferings in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal Author:Maria Monk General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. CONGREGATIONAL NUNNERY. Story told by a fellow Pupil against a Priest -- Other Stories -- Pretty Mary -- Confess to Father Richards -- My subsequent Confessions -- Left the Congregational Nunnery. There was a girl thirteen years old whom I knew in the school, who resided in the neighbourhood of my mother, and with whom I had been familiar. She told me one day at school of the conduct of a priest with her at confession, at which I was astonished. It was of so criminal and shameful a nature, I could hardly believe it, and yet I had so much confidence that she spoke the truth, that I could not discredit it. She was partly persuaded by the priest to believe he could not sin, because he was a priest, and that any thing he did to her would sanctify her ., and yet she seemed somewhat doubtful how she should act. A priest, she had been told by him, is a holy man, and appointed to a holy office, and therefore what would be wicked in other men, could not be so in him. She told me that she had informed her mother of it, who expressed no anger nor disapprobation, but only enjoined it upon her not to speak of it; and remarked to her, that as priests wore not like other men, but holy, and sent to instruct and save us, whatever they did was right. I afterward confessed to the priest that I had heard the story, and had a penance to perform for indulging a sinful curiosity in making inquiries; and the girl had another for communicating it. I afterward learned that other children had been treated in the same manner, and also of similar proceedings in other places. Indeed, it was not long before such la...« less