Alter | 209 Jahre |
Beruf | Sachbuchautor |
Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 27. Juni 1816 |
Todesort | Roosevelt Island |
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Beschreibung | Maria Monk (27. Juni 1816 – Sommer 1849) war eine kanadische Frau, deren Buch Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) behauptete, systematischen sexuellen Missbrauch von Nonnen und Kindsmord der daraus resultierenden Kinder durch katholische Priester in ihrem Kloster in Montreal aufzudecken. Das Buch wird von Wissenschaftlern als ein antichristlicher Hoax betrachtet. |
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
