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The Nunnery of the Buried Alive

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 11, 1891

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 17, No. 19.

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The Nunnery of the Buried Alive

THE Roman Catholic press has been making an uproar about an alleged assault made by the Italian police upon some of the religious houses of their sect in Naples. It seems that the Italian Minister of Justice ordered the police to visit "The Nunnery of the Buried Alive," in Naples. Because of the strenuous opposition of the doorkeeper, the police were compelled to enter by the windows. Sixteen nuns were found within in a state bordering upon insanity. They were covered with rags, and their surroundings were of the most filthy description. Many had forgotten how to speak, and the demeanor of all of them was more that of animals than human beings.—Cynosure.