Murder in a Nunnery
Author: Emmet Lavery
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780573612633
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Author: Emmet Lavery
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780573612633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Storms
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-12-21
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 146787146X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMURDER IN THE NUNNERY is a compelling, heart-stopping novella of suspense, intrigue and surprise. Murder? In a convent? Mother Ellen, Prioress and Sister Irene, Novice Mistress are drawn into a web of mystery when their gardener, Richard Gibbs, is found stabbed to death in their greenhouse. The pervasive scent of lavender has them believing it could be one of their own! Upon further investigation the Denville police trace Richard's history to Ireland where youthful and heinous crimbes are discovered. Was he hiding in America? Was it someone from his past taking revenge? You will learn of his double life and his betrayal of the trusted nuns who treated him as a family member.
Author: Eric Shepherd
Publisher: Linford
Published: 2018-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781444839227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKON THE STEPS OF ST. JOSEPH'S ALTAR LAY THE CORPULENT BODY OF THE BARONESS SLIEMA - STILL, SO IT SEEMED TO THE HORRIFIED NUNS, HEAVING UNDER THE BLOW WHICH HAD STRUCK HER DOWN... Chief Inspector Pearson of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime - but the old wealthy Baroness had quarrelled with most everyone in Harrington Convent, and there is no shortage of suspects. What's more, he must deal with a particularly shrewd Reverend Mother, and nuns and students who lead him on a merry chase...
Author: Edward Hendrie
Publisher: Edward Hendrie
Published: 2015-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1943056005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has probably not been a person more maligned by the powerful forces of the Roman Catholic Church than Maria Monk. In 1836 she published the famous book, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. In that book, she told of murder, rape, and torture behind the walls of the cloistered nunnery. Because the evidence was verifiably true, the Catholic hierarchy found it necessary to fabricate evidence and suborn perjury in an attempt to destroy the credibility of Maria Monk. The Catholic Church has kept up the character assassination of Maria Monk now for over 175 years. Edward Hendrie has examined the evidence and set it forth for the readers to decide for themselves whether Maria Monk was an impostor or a brave victim. An objective view of the evidence leads to the ineluctable conclusion that Maria Monk told the truth about what happened behind the walls of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. The Roman Catholic Church, which is the most powerful religious and political organization in the world, has engaged in an unceasing campaign of vilification against Maria Monk. Its crusade against Maria Monk, however, can only affect the opinion of the uninformed. It cannot change the evidence. The evidence speaks clearly to those who will look at the case objectively. The evidence reveals that the much maligned Maria Monk was a reliable witness who made awful but accurate disclosures about life in a cloistered nunnery.
Author: Eric Shepherd
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hubert Wolf
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 0385351925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. 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. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the 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. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.
Author: Maria Monk
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781976337208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwful Disclosures A Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed By Maria Monk Maria Monk was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The book became a best-seller.
Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1993-11-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 110165144X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnholy passions and demonic deaths... In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for her amusement. She demands wine, a feast.... And her niece, the angelic Thomasine. The lady desires to enrich herself and her reputation by arranging a marriage for the devout novice. She cares nothing for the panic and despair she leaves behind her. But all her cruel and cunning schemes are brought to a sudden end with strange and most unnatural murder. As suspicious eyes turn on the pious Thomasine, it falls to Sister Frevisse, hosteler of the priory and amateur detective, to unravel the webs of unholy passion and dark intrigue that entangle the novice and prove her innocence...or condemn her.
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1681373882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.