04278cam a2200793 4500 574878350 TxAuBib 20220507120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385351928 0385351925 B00JNQKQY2 Amazon a58225a7-d18a-4cf2-85a5-0235453eebc8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1681896 OverDrive (Product ID) 234542 234542 234542 TxAuBib Wolf, Hubert. The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio [Libby eBook] : The True Story of a Convent in Scandal. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4395kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Christian books for women. christian gifts for women. gifts for history buffs. Christian gifts for men. history teacher gifts. history lovers gifts. inspirational books. inspirational gifts. history buff gifts. European History. historical books. Christian books. religious books. christian gifts. Catholic books. Catholic gifts. World History. history books. history gifts. Catholicism. Reformation. Historical. psychology. Christian. Biography. marriage. Religion. catholic. medieval. theology. History. Saints. crime. Nuns. nun. HTML:<p><b>A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.<br /></b><br /> 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.”<br /> <br /> 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.</p>. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:03. Martin, Ruth. https://samples.overdrive.com/nuns-of-sant-ambrogio?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/nuns-of-sant-ambrogio?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/nuns-of-sant-ambrogio?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)