The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863
by
Margaret Chowning
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the church to be mysterious. Great care was taken to prevent the "scandal" of factionalism in the nunneries...