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Maria Monk (1816-1849) was a Canadian woman who claimed to have been a nun who had been sexually exploited in her convent. This 1836 book exists in numerous editions; I am reviewing the 173-page 1997 Random House paperback edition (which includes "The Cardiere Case"). (For more information about Monk, see the Introduction to Veil of Fear: Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales.)

She begins Chapter VIII with the statement, "I will now give from memory a general description of the interior of the Convent of Black Nuns... I may be inaccurate in some things... but I am willing to risk my credit for truth and sincerity on the general correspondence between my description and the way things are... The priests who read this book will acknowledge to themselves the truth of my description; he will, of course, deny it to the world, and probably exert themselves to destroy my credit."

She wrote of "priests of the Seminary adjoining ... were often admitted into the nunnery, and allowed to indulge in the greatest crimes, which they and others call virtues." (Pg. 26, Ch. VI) She mentions "a small sitting-room, where a priest waits to baptize the infants previous to their murder." (Pg. 40, Ch. VIII) She states, "the Superior would tell us that priests acted under the direct sanction of God, and COULD NOT sin. Of course, then, it could not be wrong to comply with any of their requests, because they could not demand anything but what was right." (Pg. 44, Ch. VIII)

She describes a lime pit, "that was the place where the infants were buried, after being murdered... I passed the spot.. with dreadful thoughts... about the little corpses which might be in that secret burying place... but with recollections also of the declarations which I had heard, about the favour done their souls in sending them direct to heaven, and the necessary virtue accompanying all the actions of the priests." (Pg. 48-49, Ch. IX) When one nun complained, "she would rather die than cause the murder of harmless babies," she was murdered: "when it was presumed that the sufferer had been smothered and crushed to death, Father Bonin and the nuns ceased to trample upon her, and stepped from the bed." (Pg. 63, Ch. 11)

She describes the procedure after baptism of the illegitimate infants: "one of the old nuns... pressed her hand upon the mouth and nose... so tight that it could not breathe, and in a few minutes... it was dead... The little bodies were then taken into the cellar, thrown into the pit I have mentioned, and covered with a quantity of lime." (Pg. 99-100; Ch. XVI)

Of penances, she wrote, "It was no uncommon thing for us to be required to drink the water in which the Superior had washed her feet. Sometimes we were required to brand ourselves with a hot iron, so as to leave scars; at other times, to whip our naked flesh with several small rods... until we drew blood... Sometimes we were obliged to sleep on the floor in the winter, with nothing over us but a single sheet; and sometimes to chew a piece of window glass to a fine powder, in the presence of the Superior. We had sometimes to wear a leathern belt stuck full of sharp metallic points, round our waists... bound so tight that they penetrated the flesh, and drew blood." (Pg. 114, Ch. XVII)

Well, you get the idea; this exercise in "religious pornography" has no reeeming features.


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Awful Disclosures Maria Monk 9781505727517 Books Reviews

Maria Monk (1816-1849) was a Canadian woman who claimed to have been a nun who had been sexually exploited in her convent. This 1836 book exists in numerous editions; I am reviewing the 173-page 1997 Random House paperback edition (which includes "The Cardiere Case"). (For more information about Monk, see the Introduction to Veil of Fear Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales.)

She begins Chapter VIII with the statement, "I will now give from memory a general description of the interior of the Convent of Black Nuns... I may be inaccurate in some things... but I am willing to risk my credit for truth and sincerity on the general correspondence between my description and the way things are... The priests who read this book will acknowledge to themselves the truth of my description; he will, of course, deny it to the world, and probably exert themselves to destroy my credit."

She wrote of "priests of the Seminary adjoining ... were often admitted into the nunnery, and allowed to indulge in the greatest crimes, which they and others call virtues." (Pg. 26, Ch. VI) She mentions "a small sitting-room, where a priest waits to baptize the infants previous to their murder." (Pg. 40, Ch. VIII) She states, "the Superior would tell us that priests acted under the direct sanction of God, and COULD NOT sin. Of course, then, it could not be wrong to comply with any of their requests, because they could not demand anything but what was right." (Pg. 44, Ch. VIII)

She describes a lime pit, "that was the place where the infants were buried, after being murdered... I passed the spot.. with dreadful thoughts... about the little corpses which might be in that secret burying place... but with recollections also of the declarations which I had heard, about the favour done their souls in sending them direct to heaven, and the necessary virtue accompanying all the actions of the priests." (Pg. 48-49, Ch. IX) When one nun complained, "she would rather die than cause the murder of harmless babies," she was murdered "when it was presumed that the sufferer had been smothered and crushed to death, Father Bonin and the nuns ceased to trample upon her, and stepped from the bed." (Pg. 63, Ch. 11)

She describes the procedure after baptism of the illegitimate infants "one of the old nuns... pressed her hand upon the mouth and nose... so tight that it could not breathe, and in a few minutes... it was dead... The little bodies were then taken into the cellar, thrown into the pit I have mentioned, and covered with a quantity of lime." (Pg. 99-100; Ch. XVI)

Of penances, she wrote, "It was no uncommon thing for us to be required to drink the water in which the Superior had washed her feet. Sometimes we were required to brand ourselves with a hot iron, so as to leave scars; at other times, to whip our naked flesh with several small rods... until we drew blood... Sometimes we were obliged to sleep on the floor in the winter, with nothing over us but a single sheet; and sometimes to chew a piece of window glass to a fine powder, in the presence of the Superior. We had sometimes to wear a leathern belt stuck full of sharp metallic points, round our waists... bound so tight that they penetrated the flesh, and drew blood." (Pg. 114, Ch. XVII)

Well, you get the idea; this exercise in "religious pornography" has no reeeming features.