Convents were depicted as prisons, brothels and madhouses and were regarded as the locus for all kinds of perversions, sexual perversions in particular. The term 'pervert' was used in the context of the 'pervert' being led astray from 'true' religion, and applied to Protestants who converted...
but Our Lord Himself whom he saw in glory, healed him and bade him go forth to convert sinners, for My judgment is near. In the language of Scripture, ajudgmentis a time of trial during which the good become better by prayer and abandonment to God's Providence...
Consequentially, the Irish took the lead on the mass Catholic church building that began around 1830 (Shea 1878; Smith 2006) and by the mid-nineteenth century, they were also involved in the construction of other Catholic associated buildings such as convents, schools and hospitals. This Church...
who spent the last months of his life in Rome and died from tuberculosis was interred there in 1821. Percy and Mary Shelley’s son, William, also died of Roman fever, and his remains were thought to be interred
Mid-nineteenth-century anti-Catholic discourse was fuelled by stories of girls being inveigled into convents, terrible 'goings on' within the convent walls, and warnings of how Roman Catholicism could destroy even the bonds of matrimony. Two very well known and sensational cases of the time ...