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Sloyne
'The Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal' or most commonly known as
'Maria Monk' was the figment of a very vicious anti catholic imagination. It was first published in 1836 in the United States of America with the above title, later edited as
'The Awful Disclosures of Mariah Monk'. Maria Monk was a famous American imposter who made a lot of money out of religious bigotry. She claimed to be a nun in a Montreal convent where she allegedly suffered torture, sexual degradation and exploitation at the hands of degenerate priests and nuns.
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Incredibly, this book is still available and can be purchased from certain right wing American evangelical, so called, Christian groups.
Sounds an interesting book.
I'd buy it!
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