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AWEUL DISCLOSURES,
BY MARIA MONK,
OF THE HOTEL DIEU NUNNERY, MONTREAL.
CONTAINING ALSO,
MANY INCIDENTS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
Price, 75 cents, cloth.
TuE Disclosures made by the subject of this republication, when they first appeared
created the greatest excitement, and threw the greatest consternation into the ranks of
the papal priesthood, and ‘no stronger proof of the truthfulness of her revelations need
be advanced, than the mere mention of the terror and tribulation manifested by priests
and Bishops, Superiors and ‘ Fathers,” when Maria Monk unveiled their hidden iniqul-
ties. “ A made up story ” would have created a smile of derision, and would soon have
died under the withering rebuke of silent contempt, but these truths gave rise to a storm
of passion, and drew into the field of controversy the greatest potentates of the Papal
church in America. Nothing but truth could have produced such a whirlwind of excite-
- ment, nothing but facts could have elicited such outbursts of fiendish temper, and such
torrents of bitter vituperation. This truthful narrative, as related by Maria Monk, is
at present loudly called for by the American public, who have recently ‘been further
enlightened as to the true nature of the Romish system; and, in compliance with tho
public demand, we have issued a reprint of the work.
Nor is the evidence given by Miss Iarrison, Miss Reed, Miss Monk, and other escaped
nuns, the only testimony we have, which goes to show how extremely immoral are the
practices of the conductors of Conyents—for we have the proof, which, with all Roman
Catholics, is as conclusive as the word of God, namely: that of te evidence given by a
Pope, Pope Innocent VIIL., in a bull published for the Reformation of Monasteries, sald
that, “members of monasteries and other religious places, lead a lascivious and truly
dissolute life.” During the sitting of the Council of Troyes, the Archbishop said,— “ in
convents of monks, canons, and nuns, we have lay-abbots residing with their wives,
sons, daughters, soldiers and dogs"; and he charges the whole clergy with being ina
depraved and sinful state.
Americans, as well as Romanists, must believe the testimony of men who ore thus con-
strained to testify against their own interests.
Still additional corroborative information touching the iniquities peculiar to monastic
life in the United States, has been elicited from reliable parties, and is embodied in the
Work issued this season by the publishers of this volume, entitled, “ Toe Esoarrp Non ;
or, Disclosures of Convent Life,” together with ** The Confessions of a Sister of Charity,”
giving a more minute detail of their inner life, and a bolder revelation of the mysteries
and secrets of nunnervies, than have ever before been submitted to the American public.
Setting aside the thrilling and deeply abgorbing Interest occasioned by the perusal of Miss
Monk’s disclosures, it is the duty of every Protestant parent and guardian in the United
States to read her statements, to the end that they may know the dangers to which they
would expose their daughters or wards by sending them to Romish * institutions of learn-
ing”—so called !
tEF"The above work will be forwarded by mail, free of postage, on receipt of price.
DE WITT & DAVENPORT, Posuisuers,
160 & 162 NASSAU STREET, N. ¥.
W. H.. Tixsox, Printer and Stereotyper, 24 Beckman Street, N, Y.