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Maria Monk Quotes
Page 2 of 2Maria Monk
1816 - 1849
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Celebrity
Subcategory: Canadian Celebrity
|  On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience. | | She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! | | I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. | | I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time. | | I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. |
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