LEADER 05764nam 2200649 450 001 9910797184803321 005 20230807214200.0 010 $a0-19-104606-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000382986 035 $a(EBL)1961752 035 $a(OCoLC)908082100 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001495322 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11842980 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001495322 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11450397 035 $a(PQKB)10509096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1961752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1961752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11039052 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760401 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000382986 100 $a20150413h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe nuns of Sant'Ambrogio $ethe true story of a convent in scandal /$fHubert Wolf ; translated by Ruth Martin 210 1$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (492 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-104605-1 311 $a0-19-873219-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""The NUNS Of SANTa???AMBROGIO: THE TRUE STORY OF A CONVENT SCANDAL""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Prologue: a???Save, Save Me!a???""; ""CHAPTER ONE: a???Such Turpitudesa???: 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 SANTa???AMBROGIO""; ""A POSSESSED SEDUCER OF NUNS""; ""A FALSE SAINT""; ""POISONING""; ""THE SAVIORa???S PERSPECTIVE"" 327 $a""CHAPTER TWO: a???The a???Delicatezzaa??? of the Matter as Sucha???: Extrajudicial Preliminary Investigations""""INFORMAL QUESTIONING""; ""THE OUTCASTa???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: a???I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sistersa???: The Informative Process and the Devotees of the Mother Founder"" 327 $a""THE CONVENT OF SANTa???AMBROGIO DELLA MASSIMA""""FRANCISCANS OF THE THIRD ORDER""; ""AGNESE FIRRAO IS VENERATED AS A SAINT""; ""AGNESE FIRRAO IS ACCUSED OF FALSE HOLINESS""; ""THE INQUISITIONa???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 a???MOTHER CONFESSORa???""; ""THE CONFESSORS PROCLAIM THE FALSE CULT""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: a???Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Cominga???: The Madre Vicariaa???s Pretense of Holiness""; ""VISIONS ON THE ROAD TO POWER"" 327 $a""MYSTICISM""""THE EARTHLY ORIGINS OF HEAVENLY RINGS AND THE SCENT OF ROSES""; ""LETTERS FROM THE MOTHER OF GOD""; ""THE MARIAN CENTURY""; ""FORGING LETTERS FROM THE VIRGIN""; ""PASTORAL CARE IN BED""; ""LESBIAN INTIMACIES IN A CONVENT CELL""; ""THE SANTa???AMBROGIO SYSTEM""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: a???An Act of Divine Splendora???: Murder on the Orders of the Virgin""; ""THE AMERICANO AND HIS OBSCENE LETTER""; ""THE CORD AROUND KATHARINAa???S NECK""; ""HEAVENLY LETTERS FORETELL KATHARINAa???S MURDER""; ""THE DRAMATURGY OF A POISONING""; ""a???IT WAS MOST CERTAINLY THE DEVILa???""; ""MORE MURDERS"" 327 $a""PENNIES FROM HEAVEN""""THE CONFESSORS AS CONFIDANTS AND ACCOMPLICES""; ""THE RESULTS OF THE INFORMATIVE PROCESS""; ""CHAPTER SIX: a???It Is a Heavenly Liquora???: The Offensive Process and the Interrogation of the Madre Vicaria""; ""a???I ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A NUNa???""; ""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 CONFESSORa???S AFFAIR WITH ALESSANDRA N.""; ""MARIA LUISA AND PADRE PETERS: BLESSING OR BEDDING?""; ""a???MY ONLY DEFENSE IS JESUS CHRISTa???"" 327 $a""CHAPTER SEVEN: a???That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of Goda???: The Interrogations of the Father Confessor and the Abbess"" 330 $aDiscovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent.In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, 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. 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