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CELIBACY AND MORALS.—Illicit relations formed by the clergy—Shameless avowal of their fruits—Ferocious character of love in the cloisters—Three flagrant cases—Murder of a young lady by her confessor, the Carmelite of San Lucar—His trial and sentence—Murder by a wife of her husband under the direction of her confessor, the Capuchine of Cuenca—His trial, imprisonment, and escape—Murder of a lady by the Agonizante of Madrid—His trial and execution—Scandalous occurrences in the Convent of the Basilios of Madrid—Forcible entry of the civil power—Murder of the abbot—Suppression of inquiry—Shameful profligacy of the Capuchines of Cascante and the nuns of a neighbouring convent—Mode of its discovery—Imprisonment of inmates of both convents—Removal of prisoners—Their mysterious escape—Exemplary performance of vows in some cases—Dangers of celibacy—Spanish women and their influence on society.
The archives of the Spanish tribunals abound with criminal proceedings against friars, for murders committed on the persons of their unhappy victims or paramours. There are three celebrated instances of this kind,—one against the Carmelite of San Lucar, another against the Capuchine of Cuenca, and the third against the Agonizante of Madrid.
On Jan. 28, Albemarle hears that Charles has been in Paris 'under the habit of a Capuchine Fryar, and this WAS a disguise of his, according to Pickle. Meanwhile the French Government kept protesting their total ignorance. On April 3, 1750, Walton announces that James has had a long letter from Charles containing his plans and those of his adherents, for which he demands the Royal approval.
Chesnel brought her his last bag of louis; she took it, without paying any attention to it, as she took her white capuchine and thread mittens. "Generous girl! What grace!" he said, as he put her into the carriage with her maid, a woman who looked like a gray sister. Du Croisier had thought out his revenge, as provincials think out everything.
Come, you shall go with me to the Lady Betty Castleton's." "Indeed, you must excuse me, my dear," answered Amelia, "I do not know Lady Betty." "Not know Lady Betty! how, is that possible? but no matter, I will introduce you. She keeps a morning rout; hardly a rout, indeed; a little bit of a drum only four or five tables. Come, take your capuchine; you positively shall go.
The history of the second case, viz., that of the Capuchine of Cuenca, bears a still more scandalous and atrocious character. The unhallowed passions of this great criminal had their origin also in the confessional. The latter and his querida, unknown to the confiding carpenter, passed some years in a total abandonment of themselves to vicious courses.
Chesnel brought her his last bag of louis; she took it, without paying any attention to it, as she took her white capuchine and thread mittens. "Generous girl! What grace!" he said, as he put her into the carriage with her maid, a woman who looked like a gray sister. Du Croisier had thought out his revenge, as provincials think out everything.
Come, you shall go with me to the Lady Betty Castleton's." "Indeed, you must excuse me, my dear," answered Amelia, "I do not know Lady Betty." "Not know Lady Betty! how, is that possible? but no matter, I will introduce you. She keeps a morning rout; hardly a rout, indeed; a little bit of a drum only four or five tables. Come, take your capuchine; you positively shall go.
The name of the Capuchine Fray Diego de Cadiz must be still fresh in the memory,—a man no less remarkable for his poverty, self-denial, and humility, than for the sublime eloquence with which he contended against the vices of his times, and drew sinners into the paths of virtue.
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