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Index
Title Page Copyright Contents Dramatis Personae Prologue - “Save, Save Me!” Chapter One - “Such Turpitudes”: Katharina von Hohenzollern Complains to the Inquisition
Rome as a Heavenly Jerusalem A Road-to-Damascus Experience and Its Consequences A Roman Cloistered Idyll Salvation from a Cloistered Hell Denunciation as a Moral Duty The Secret of Sant’Ambrogio A Possessed Seducer of Nuns A False Saint Poisoning The Savior’s Perspective
Chapter Two - “The ‘Delicatezza’ of the Matter as Such”: Extrajudicial Preliminary Investigations
Informal Questioning The Outcast’s Testimony Two Nuns in a Bed Unchastity and Sodomy A Dominican Wants the Details Many Convincing Proofs An Inquisition Trial, After All The Inquisition Tribunal: Processes and Protagonists The Sources from the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Chapter Three - “I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters”: The Informative Process and the Devotees of the Mother Founder
The Convent of Sant’Ambrogio della Massima Franciscans of the Third Order Agnese Firrao Is Venerated as a Saint Agnese Firrao Is Accused of False Holiness The Inquisition’s 1816 Verdict The Miraculous Conversion of Leo XII True and False Holiness Proof of the Continuing Cult of Firrao The Secret Abbess Relics Inspired Texts A “Mother Confessor” The Confessors Proclaim the False Cult
Chapter Four - “Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming”: The Madre Vicaria’s Pretense of Holiness
Visions on the Road to Power Mysticism The Earthly Origins of Heavenly Rings and the Scent of Roses Letters from the Mother of God The Marian Century Forging Letters from the Virgin Pastoral Care in Bed Lesbian Intimacies in a Convent Cell The Sant’Ambrogio System
Chapter Five - “An Act of Divine Splendor”: Murder on the Orders of the Virgin
The Americano and His Obscene Letter The Cord Around Katharina’s Neck Heavenly Letters Foretell Katharina’s Murder The Dramaturgy of a Poisoning “It Was Most Certainly the Devil” More Murders Pennies from Heaven The Confessors as Confidants and Accomplices The Results of the Informative Process
Chapter Six - “It Is a Heavenly Liquor”: The Offensive Process and the Interrogation of the Madre Vicaria
“I Always Wanted to Become a Nun” The Story of an Innocent Lamb Evidence and First Confessions Maria Luisa and Her Novices Sexual Abuse Jesuit Confessors and Their Very Special Blessing The Confessor’s Affair with Alessandra N. Maria Luisa and Padre Peters: Blessing or Bedding? “My Only Defense Is Jesus Christ”
Chapter Seven - “That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God”: The Interrogations of the Father Confessor and the Abbess
Giuseppe Leziroli: A Confessor Before the Court The Apostle of Saint Agnese Firrao The Confessor and “Saint” Maria Luisa Leziroli and the Poisonings Maria Veronica Milza: An Abbess Before the Court Confessions
Chapter Eight - “During These Acts I Never Ceased My Inner Prayer”: The Interrogation of Giuseppe Peters
Padre Peters’s True Identity The Defendant’s Spontaneous Admissions A Cardinal Breaks the Secret of the Holy Office And After All, the Cult of Firrao Was Permitted Theology and French Kissing New Scholastic Convolutions The Court’s Final Proposition A Proxy War?
Chapter Nine - “Sorrowful and Contrite”: The Verdict and Its Consequences
Consultors, Cardinals, Pope: The Verdict Internal Abjurations and External Secrecy A Founder Instead of a Nun A Cardinal’s Poison Paranoia Friends in High Places A Saint in the Madhouse A Heretic Writes Dogma
Epilogue - The Secret of Sant’Ambrogio as Judged by History Acknowledgments Notes Sources and Literature Illustration Credits A Note About the Author A Note About the Translator
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