The Results of Enforced Celibacy (Wylie, The Awakening of Italy and the Crisis of Rome, 1866)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: a historic event (c. 1859 & 1864)
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37... speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church.

  Last summer the wife of a rich merchant was taken by her confessor to the Convent della Suore Grigè; for, be it remembered, the convent is never far from the confessional-box, the two being in fact twin institutions—halves of a great whole. The husband traced his wife to her refugio, and brought an action at law against the priest. The priest defended himself on the ground that his penitent had fled to the convent of her own accord, moved by the pious desire of enjoying less interruptedly the benefit of his spiritual instructions. The court, instead of gratifying the parties in their devout wishes, found them guilty of a flagrant breach of that commandment which is the sixth in order in Roman catechisms, but in Protestant ones is the seventh; and the public outside, despite the protestations of the priest, who appealed from the judgment of men to the judgment of God, who knew his motives, marked their sense of the transaction by affixing, over night, the following placard to the gates of the convent, Casa di tolleranza—Camere da affittarsi.
  Two days after the publication of these facts in Il Temporale there appeared in the same journal a letter from a citizen of Parma, which was as follows :——“I have read in your spirited and most useful journal an account which shows the uses served by confessionals and convents, and I write these few lines to say that the inscription posted upon the gate of the convent Del Refugio e delle Suore Grigè might be affixed to a great many similar establishments. In Parma, for example, there was a convent of the Jesuits near to that of the nuns of St. Ursula. The one was divided from the other by a narrow street. When, in 1859, the just indignation of the populace drove the fathers from their buildings, it was discovered that there was an underground communication betwixt the two convents, which enabled the monks and nuns to hold converse with one another without restraint. In Lombardy, and in other places, subterranean passages have been discovered in these establishments, which allowed the religious of both sexes freely to mingle in each other’s society. The conversion of these commodious asylums of dubious chastity into barracks and hospitals cannot be regarded but as a great good.”*
         * Il Temporale, August 2, 1864.
Wylie, James Aitken, The Awakening of Italy and the Crisis of Rome, London: the Religious Tract Society, 1866, pp. 61-62.


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