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1 online resource |
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Cover; The NUNS Of SANT'AMBROGIO: THE TRUE STORY OF A CONVENT SCANDAL; Copyright; Contents; Dramatis Personae; Prologue: "Save, Save Me!"; CHAPTER ONE: "Such Turpitudes": Katharina von Hohenzollern Complains to the Inquisition; ROME AS A HEAVENLY JERUSALEM; A ROAD-TO-DAMASCUSEXPERIENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES; A ROMAN CLOISTERED IDYLL; SALVATION FROM A CLOISTERED HELL; DENUNCIATION AS A MORAL DUTY; THE SECRET OF SANT'AMBROGIO; A POSSESSED SEDUCER OF NUNS; A FALSE SAINT; POISONING; THE SAVIOR'S PERSPECTIVE |
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CHAPTER TWO: "The 'Delicatezza' of the Matter as Such": Extrajudicial Preliminary InvestigationsINFORMAL QUESTIONING; THE OUTCAST'S TESTIMONY; TWO NUNS IN A BED; UNCHASTITY AND SODOMY; A DOMINICAN WANTS THE DETAILS; MANY CONVINCING PROOFS; AN INQUISITION TRIAL, AFTER ALL; THE INQUISITION TRIBUNAL: PROCESSES AND PROTAGONISTS; THE SOURCES FROM THE ARCHIVE OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH; CHAPTER THREE: "I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters": The Informative Process and the Devotees of the Mother Founder; THE CONVENT OF SANT'AMBROGIO DELLA MASSIMA |
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FRANCISCANS OF THE THIRD ORDERAGNESE FIRRAO IS VENERATED AS A SAINT; AGNESE FIRRAO IS ACCUSED OF FALSE HOLINESS; THE INQUISITION'S 1816 VERDICT; THE MIRACULOUS CONVERSION OF LEO XII; TRUE AND FALSE HOLINESS; PROOF OF THE CONTINUING CULT OF FIRRAO; THE SECRET ABBESS; RELICS; INSPIRED TEXTS; A "MOTHER CONFESSOR"; THE CONFESSORS PROCLAIM THE FALSE CULT; CHAPTER FOUR: "Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming": The Madre Vicaria's Pretense of Holiness; VISIONS ON THE ROAD TO POWER; MYSTICISM; THE EARTHLY ORIGINS OF HEAVENLY RINGS AND THE SCENT OF ROSES; LETTERS FROM THE MOTHER OF GOD |
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THE MARIAN CENTURYFORGING LETTERS FROM THE VIRGIN; PASTORAL CARE IN BED; LESBIAN INTIMACIES IN A CONVENT CELL; THE SANT'AMBROGIO SYSTEM; CHAPTER FIVE: "An Act of Divine Splendor": Murder on the Orders of the Virgin; THE AMERICANO AND HIS OBSCENE LETTER; THE CORD AROUND KATHARINA'S NECK; HEAVENLY LETTERS FORETELL KATHARINA'S MURDER; THE DRAMATURGY OF A POISONING; "IT WAS MOST CERTAINLY THE DEVIL"; MORE MURDERS; PENNIES FROM HEAVEN; THE CONFESSORS AS CONFIDANTS AND ACCOMPLICES; THE RESULTS OF THE INFORMATIVE PROCESS |
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CHAPTER SIX: "It Is a Heavenly Liquor": The Offensive Process and the Interrogation of the Madre Vicaria"I ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A NUN"; THE STORY OF AN INNOCENT LAMB; EVIDENCE AND FIRST CONFESSIONS; MARIA LUISA AND HER NOVICES; SEXUAL ABUSE; JESUIT CONFESSORS AND THEIR VERY SPECIAL BLESSING; THE CONFESSOR'S AFFAIR WITH ALESSANDRA N.; MARIA LUISA AND PADRE PETERS: BLESSING OR BEDDING?; "MY ONLY DEFENSE IS JESUS CHRIST"; CHAPTER SEVEN: "That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God": The Interrogations of the Father Confessor and the Abbess; GIUSEPPE LEZIROLI: A CONFESSOR BEFORE THE COURT |
| Summary |
In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance |
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Originally published: Germany : C.H. Beck Verlag, 2013 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English, translated from German |
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Print version record |
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Sant'Ambrogio della Massima (Monastery : Rome, Italy) -- History -- 19th century
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Sant'Ambrogio della Massima (Monastery : Rome, Italy) fast |
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 19th century
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Sex scandals -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 19th century
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Monasticism and religious orders for women
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Sex scandals
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Italy -- Rome
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191046056 |
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0191046051 |
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