May 29, 2023
In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent
was a vice den where the nuns were whores and the priests were baby
murderers. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately
wanted to believe her.
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May 15, 2023
In August 1834 Boston teamsters burned down a convent a convent
full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious
testimony of Rebecca Reed, a lazy teenager with a grudge against
the Mother Superior.
Transcript, sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/six-months-in-a-convent/
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