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Sunday, June 2, 2019

Sisters of St. Anne, Industrial Scale Baby-Killers – Italy, 1908


FULL TEXT (translated from German): The "Local Gazette" reports from San Remo: Investigations carried out by the authorities in the Italian town of Gerace have led to the discovery of a gruesome crime, in which the institution was headed by St. Anne's sisters, expelled from France in the past year, 143 out of 144 infant foundlings have died as a result of a lack of food, and the population of the town is in a state of great agitation for these terrible crimes.

["A nunnery as a big angel-making shop." Salzburger Wacht (Salzburg, Austria), 23. Juli 1908, p. 4]

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The Sisters of St. Anne are a Roman Catholic religious institute, founded in 1850 in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada, by the Blessed Marie Anne Blondin, S.S.A., to promote the education of the rural children of the Province of Canada. Their vision is rooted and guided by Ignatian spirituality. – Gerace is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. [Wikipedia]

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FULL TEXT: Der “Lokalanzeiger" meldet aus San Remo: Nachforschungen, welche die Behörden indem italienischen Oertchen Gerace anstellten, habenzur Entdeckung eines grausigen Verbrechens geführt. Es wurde festgestellt, daß in der Anstalt, die von denaus Frankreich ausgewiesenen St. Anne Schwestern geleitet wird, im vergangenen Jahre von 144 dort untergebrachten Findelkindern 143 Kinder infolge Mangels an Nahrung gestorben sind. DieBevölkerung des Städtchensistob dieser furchtbaren Verbrechen in großer Aufregung.

[“Ein Nonnenkloster als Großbetrieb für Engelmacherei.” Salzburger Wacht (Salzburg, Austria), 23. Juli 1908, p. 4]

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