My 8th Grade nun was a real character. An older Irish born nun who looked all the world like a cross between Winston Churchill and a bulldog (same thing right?). In our catechism class she was more fire and brimstone than any priest I had ever heard. She would start low and slow and work up to a loud crescendo.....like Hitler used to do. All in a thick Irish Brogue. “Don’t go to hell with a single mortal (pronounced martal) sin.....go to hell with a million martal sins.....GO TO HELL GLORIOUSLY!!”
I liked her, she was a real character ....but I had a surname that ended in a vowel so she only gave extra help to the O’Brians and Caseys, to get into a good Catholic HS.
Oh, my! She sounds a rip! Yeah, some of those old broads played favorites.