Accusations: A former members of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate has claimed that nuns in the order were forced to perform daily self-flagellation, eat expired food and writer their vows in their own blood.
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A former nun has claimed that she was forced to engage in daily self-flagellation and encouraged to write her vows in her own blood while living in a convent in southern Italy.
The woman, now in her 30s, alleges that nuns of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, which has its headquarters in Frigento, Avellino province in Campania, took part in the rituals in the 1990s.
In addition to the punishing rituals, she says she was fed out-of-date yoghurt and corned beef, which the nuns were told would not affect them if they ate it 'with true obedience'. [. . .]
In an interview with an Italian newspaper where she makes the damaging allegations, the former nun shows off a post card with her vows, signed by the head of the order.
She claims the vows were written using in her own blood, on the day of her initiation in 1996, when she was 17 years old.
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She also revealed that nuns of the order would 'flagellated ourselves in the evening during the time it took to say these prayers: five Our Father, five Ave Maria and five Salve Regina'
The newspaper claims to have been contacted by a number of former priests and nuns with the Franciscans of the Immaculate who have told stories of alleged beatings, oppressions, violence and extreme practices such as flagellations, branding with fire, expired food and other abuses.
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Father Stefano Maria Manelli, the General Minister of the order who founded it in the early 1970s, has denied all wrongdoing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3384108/Nuns-claim-forced-brand-fire-eat-date-food-write-orders-obedience-blood-Mafia-style-initiations-Italian-convent.html
Nuns claim they were forced to brand themselves with fire, eat out-of-date food and write orders of obedience in their own blood in Mafia-style initiations at Italian convent
Italian nun claims she was forced to self-flagellate and eat old food
She also says she was encouraged to write her vows in blood
Woman, then 17, says rituals were common at her convent in the 1990s
By SARA MALM and GIANLUCA MEZZOFIORE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:19 EST, 4 January 2016 | UPDATED: 14:39 EST, 4 January 2016
She also revealed that nuns of the order would 'flagellated ourselves in the evening during the time it took to say these prayers: five Our Father, five Ave Maria and five Salve Regina'
The newspaper claims to have been contacted by a number of former priests and nuns with the Franciscans of the Immaculate who have told stories of alleged beatings, oppressions, violence and extreme practices such as flagellations, branding with fire, expired food and other abuses.
[. . .]
Father Stefano Maria Manelli, the General Minister of the order who founded it in the early 1970s, has denied all wrongdoing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3384108/Nuns-claim-forced-brand-fire-eat-date-food-write-orders-obedience-blood-Mafia-style-initiations-Italian-convent.html
Nuns claim they were forced to brand themselves with fire, eat out-of-date food and write orders of obedience in their own blood in Mafia-style initiations at Italian convent
Italian nun claims she was forced to self-flagellate and eat old food
She also says she was encouraged to write her vows in blood
Woman, then 17, says rituals were common at her convent in the 1990s
By SARA MALM and GIANLUCA MEZZOFIORE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:19 EST, 4 January 2016 | UPDATED: 14:39 EST, 4 January 2016
