Identifier: fiftyyearsinchur00inchin (find matches)
Title: Fifty years in the Church of Rome
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Chiniquy, Charles Paschal Telesphore, 1809-1899
Subjects: Chiniquy, Charles Paschal Telesphore, 1809-1899 Catholic Church Catholic Church Protestant converts
Publisher: Chicago : A. Craig
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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d have preferred to havemy sentence of death, than the news of such a fall inside thewalls*of that house where I had so foolishly believed that Satancould not lay his snares. From that day, it was the will of Godthat the strange and beautiful illusions which had brought meto that monastery, should fade away one after the other, like thewhite mist which conceals the bright rays of the morning sun.The oblates began to appear to me pretty much like other men.Till then, I had looked at them with my eyes shut, and I hadseen nothing but the glittering colors with which my imagina-tion was painting them. From that day, I studied them with myeyes opened, and I saw them just as they were. In the spring of 1S47, having a severe indisposition, the doc-tor ordered me to go to the Hotel Dieu of Montreal, which was,then, near the splendid St. Marys Church. I made there, forthe first time, the acquaintance of a venerable old nun,%ho wasvery talkative. She was one of the superiors of the house; her i
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auBMWHiiMMaBi FALL OF THE HOLY FATHERS. p. 436 NOVICIATE IN THE MONASTERY. 441 family name was Urtubise. Her mind was still full of indigna-tion at the bad conduct of two father oblates, who, under thepretext of sickness, had lately come to her monastery to seducethe young nuns who were serving them. She told me how shehad turned them out ignominously, forbidding them ever tocome again, under any pretext, into the hospital. She was young,when Bishop Lartigue, being driven away from the SulpicianSeminary of Montreal, in 1824, had taken refuge, with hissecretary, the Rev. Ignace Bourget, into the modest walls ofthat nunnery. She told me how the nuns had soon to repenthaving received that bishop with his secretary and otherpriests. It was nearly the ruin of our community. The inter-course of the priests with a certain number of the nuns, she said:v\^as the cause of so much disorder and scandal, that I was de-puted w^ith some other nuns, to the bishop to respectfully requesthim not to pro

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