Posted on 06/04/2014 9:51:45 PM PDT by boatbums
Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church's troubled past.
Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to eight-year-olds, were deposited in a grave near a Catholic-run home for unmarried mothers during the 35 years it operated from 1925 to 1961.
Historian Catherine Corless, who made the discovery, says her study of death records for the St Mary's home in Tuam in County Galway suggests that a former septic tank near the home was a mass grave.
The septic tank, full to the brim with bones, was discovered in 1975 by locals when concrete slabs covering the tank broke up.
Until now, locals believed the bones mainly stemmed from the Great Irish famine of the 1840s when hundreds of thousands perished.
St Mary's, run by the Bons Secours Sisters, was one of several such 'mother and baby' homes in early 20th century Ireland.
Thousands of unmarried pregnant women -- labelled at the time as 'fallen women' -- were sent to the homes to have their babies.
The women were ostracised by the conservative-Catholic society and were often forced to hand over their children for adoption.
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“That you are defending evil.”
What “evil” am I “defending” bramps?
Well done!
“My screenname is “BOATBUMS” because my husband and I lived aboard a sailboat for 8 years and a powerboat/trawler for 5 years.”
So your bathos for the poor is a tad shamfilled maybe?
How is that “evil”?
“Quick Narses, run to the strawman. He’ll defend us. God knows I can’t defend what this article says.”
“That you are defending evil.”
What “evil” am I “defending” bramps?
Bigot is a nasty phrase, are you calling me a bigot?
Evil screams from this article. You just refuse to see it.
And devout Christians of both Catholic and Protestant faiths imprisoned, tortured, and burned at the stake those that disagreed with them.
And lots of white Christians in the 50's did too little to end racism in America.
And lots of Christians in the 50's still treated women as second class citizens.
Countless sins were committed throughout history by non-Christians and Christians of all faiths.
Narses is right to point out that this article is written in such a way that it overstates what occurred at this orphanage.
Especially in relation to all of the other horrors that we have visited upon our fellow man and continue to visit upon one another today.
Oh no, I see the evil. You fail to. What are you claiming that is “evil” that I “defend”?
I wonder what that means, it just kind of hangs there, do you have a better source on that "conversion" or when they decided to quit using it and replaced it, or anything?
Respectful of the unmarked grave in their midst, residents long have kept the grass trimmed and built a small grotto with a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Most weren’t orphans. That was a home women were sent to if they were pregnant and unmarried. They should have been with their relatives. But the Roman Church made that near impossible. Almost as charming as their reason for dumping the dead babies in the septic tank. Children of unmarried parents could not be baptized, and therefore could not be buried in a churchground.
Blaming Catholics today for this is unfair,, unless they want to go back to the old ways. I doubt the modern church would do this. But the old ones were some harsh mean SOBs.
What does that mean?
Yeah I went there, that is why I posted to you.
I wonder what that means, it just kind of hangs there, do you have a better source on that “conversion” or when they decided to quit using it and replaced it, or anything?
As a Plumbing Contractor, I’m curious about your sources claim.
With no health service and deep poverty, the number of children working class parents had to watch die was horrendous. Infant mortality soared. In 1926 in Ireland 120 of every 1,000 babies under the age of one died compared to six of every 1,000 today.36 As late as 1949 over 50 of every 1,000 babies died before the age of one. One child in 16 born in 1949 did not live to see her or his fifth birthday. Diarrhoea and enteritis were the biggest killers of babies. Tuberculosis and other preventable and treatable diseases swept through the slums, killing older children. All these children died of poverty.37
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj91/horgan.htm
Nope. Just what we know.
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