The Confessional Unmasked

>Solid, square binding. shelfwear along edges. Some short creases on top edge of back cover. Black mark on bottom of pages. Interior pages clean but tanned due to age. 224 pages. 7" X 4.25" X 0.4" originally published as the pamphlet "Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed" which claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. Monk claimed that nuns of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of the Montreal convent of the Hôtel-Dieu, were raped by priests of the seminary next door. If a baby resuled, it was baptized and then strangled and dumped into a lime pit in the basement. Uncooperative nuns were murdered. Monk claimed that she had lived in the convent for seven years, became pregnant, and fled because she did not want her baby destroyed. This is anti-Catholic hoax, but was investigated at the time (1836). Investigations revealed that the interiors of the convent this allegedly occured int did not match the book descriptions at all.