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Maria Monk and Her Influence
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Maria Monk and Her Influence
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| Abstract |
An examination of the influence of Maria Monk's purportedly autobiographical 1836 book, titled Awful Disclosures at the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal, on the anti-Catholic American nativistic movement in pre-Civil War United States. Monk (1816-1849), born in Dorchester, now part of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, asserted she had been a nun at Montreal's Hotêl Dieu Convent and had been forced by her superior to kill a companion nun who refused to submit to the sexual demands of the priests at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. She also claimed that children born to the nuns as a result of the liaisons with the priests were immediately baptized and then strangled. The author claims that 300,000 copies of Awful Disclosures were sold before Monk was discredited.
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Catholic Historical Review
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Vol. 22
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283-296
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1936-37
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en
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Billington, R. A. “Maria Monk and Her Influence.” Catholic Historical Review Vol. 22 (37 1936): 283–296.
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