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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf6/21/2023 She made a string of accusations, most directed at the convent’s extravagantly beautiful 27-year-old novice mistress, Maria Luisa, who was widely believed to be blessed with divine ecstasies and visions, and capable of healing the sick. It began in 1859 when a German princess, Katharina von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, fled the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in a panic, claiming that she was being poisoned. What Wolf found was the paper trail of an investigation into a troubled Roman convent. Wolf tells of his discovery in The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio, first published in 2013 in German and now available in English in a translation by Ruth Martin. The following year, German historian Hubert Wolf found something that, as they say on the Internet, will blow your mind. In 1998, Pope John Paul II opened the secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith–better known to you as the Inquisition–to outside researchers.
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