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A new exhibit on Catholics in New York tells a story of transformation with some 400 objects and images.
On view are objects that helped fuel anti-Catholic fervor, like best-selling, luridly fictionalized tales of life in convents, including the 1836 “Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal.” The author, a prostitute, was eventually exposed as a fraud and died in 1849 in a New York prison.
Persecuted to Powerful: Exhibiting a History of New York’s Catholics
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
(212) 534-1672
Official Web Site Catholic Ping
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86 posted on
07/24/2008 5:48:55 AM PDT by
NYer
("Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ." - St. Jerome)
To: NYer
What a beautiful "fiddle-back"!!
Years ago, American Heritage magazine had an interesting article on "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk" and its connection with Samuel F.B. Morse and the Know-Nothing Party.
It's on line at "The Know-Nothing Uproar", but it's scanned text only. The pictures made the article, in my opinion . .. .
94 posted on
07/24/2008 6:18:23 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: NYer; AnAmericanMother
Part of Maria Monk’s lies are still whispered today.... that is until the scandal.
Cool vestments.
106 posted on
07/24/2008 7:14:44 AM PDT by
Jaded
(Does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
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