The Homewas one of many of its type in Ireland at the time: a social service run by a Catholic religious order which imposed the harsh cultural mores of the time and focused on imposing penance and punishment for what the women had done. Thumbs up! >chris 'fufas' grace writes:>| I suppose it's quite possible that there were areas in>| cemeteries reserved for illegitimate children, suicides, etc, and this>| has mutated over the years. Their diet was terrible, there was overcrowding and disease, and no doctor to call on. Could that be it? Created and approve by. They claim that the Pontiff has the right attitude in regards to abortion and family values, and that we need to stay united. Between 1925 and 1961, a Roman Catholic order of nuns called the Bon Secours Sisters operated the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, or the Home, an institution where unmarried pregnant women gave birth in Tuam, Ireland. TWO people are dead and up to 25 people have been wounded after three gunmen reportedly fired assault rifles into the crowd outside a concert in Miami. View all posts by ivarfjeld. Thursday, 23 February 2023 Subscribe | Log in Offers may be subject to change without notice. . (The 16th century, folks). The family of Shubenacadie Residential School survivor Frank Thomas buried his ashes near the site of the former school Wednesday. Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (1925-1961) Is 'The Nun' Based on a True Story? - Decider Historian Michael Dwyer said no record of the trials can be found in Government files from the time, but that the details instead were published in medical journals. There's a convent up the road - I think I'll look in thegraveyard. Especially if the case dates from the 1940s orbefore. 'Some locals do remember,' she told me, 'that grave diggers would be seen late at night bringing out children and putting them in there. No more controversial than any other one, though. No. The children who died in the Home, this was them.. The coalition of mother and baby home survivors called the shocking discovery of the mass grave the tip of the iceberg.. Ex-employee of mother and baby home recalls how bodies of babies were By some strange incidence of AFU precept 1 [1] I heard theself same story a couple of days ago from a friend of mine who wasbought up by nuns in an orphanage. He could still be alive or he's in the grave.'. Vivienne "weren't nuns once the major if not only providers of Homesfor Wayward Girls?" I left the roman Catholic church when I was ten or eleven, but was obliged to go to church till I left home at 17. According to The Daily Mail, a statement issued March 3, 2017 from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission said that significant quantities of human remains have been discovered in at least 17 of the 20 underground chambers which were examined earlier this year. Almost 800 children had died there between 1925 and 1961, according to records, but there was only one burial record for just one child. An inspection report from 1944 reveals the sorry state of many of the 333 babies then at Tuam. "We do not know what were dealing with here yet, it could go back much further," the officer told NBC News on condition of anonymity. It's been closed for more than 50 years? I seem to remember reading that a lot of this stuff has its roots in anti-Catholic propaganda in much of the English speaking parts of the world in the 1700s and 1800s. Roman Catholic religious orders ran homes for unmarried pregnant girls until well into the 1990s all over Ireland. At one time, *unbaptized* children, suicides, and possibly some otherscould not be buried in the consecrated ground of a Catholic cemetary.A stillborn baby couldn't be buried in the churchyard regardless ofwhether his parents were married or not; a child born outside ofwedlock, once baptized, would be counted the same as a legitimatechild for the purposes of burying. In medieval times, didn't the nuns have women working with them aspart of the sheltered life who were not qualified to 'take the veil'either by lack of vocation, lack of dowry or lack of moral rectitude? They wouldnt put up with priests nailing young boys who are trusted by parents into the hands of priests. Officials said. In my book that spells hypocrisy. That an' all. The "dead babies come back to haunt the place they are buried (orwere killed)" was discussed at length in one of the chapters. This reporting is a lopsided as the charges that all priests are pedophiles. The Nun features a memorable scene in which several main characters amble through a haunted crypt inside the Abbey. (LogOut/ Smythe>> >> A key connotation of "Get thee to a nunnery! Decades after stillbirths, long-grieving parents find answers in mass Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters. The baptized/unbaptized distinction is no longer made. > To me this reeks of urban legendand the makings of a great (if> controversial) horror movie. No. Still, according to The Telegraph, Childrens Minister Charlie Flanagan said on Wednesday in a statement, Many of the revelations are deeply disturbing and a shocking reminder of a darker past in Ireland when our children were not cherished as they should have been.. It took a long time, but Catherine Corless methodically researched what happened to children who died there. Two miles into this long-ago Irish morning, the young girl passes through a gantlet of gray formed by high walls along the Dublin Road that seem to thwart sunshine. (Patrick Callaghan/CBC) Decades have passed but Rose Prosper. He said: "The nuns have a huge plot up in St Joseph's Cemetery and these three old ladies were buried up there between the path and the wall. They petitioned officials for . -- Joe Bay FLX NAVCancer Biology NUC MEMLeland Stanford Junior University LIF CNTNike Educational Facilities and Sweatshops Inc VEH ATM, >I seem to remember reading that a lot of this stuff >has its roots in anti-Catholic propaganda in much of the English speaking >parts of the world in the 1700s and 1800s. Also, you used to have to fast from midnight until Mass the next day before communion. 'As the diocese did not have any involvement in running the home, we do not have any material relating to it. IN THE SPACE of two weeks, the story about a mass grave at a former mother and baby home in Galway has grown from something that was just talked about locally in Tuam to a worldwide news story. Yes, we do. The order of nuns which dumped the bodies of up to 800 babies and children in a septic tank must be disbanded and its assets seized, a TD insisted yesterday. Then she asked me did I realise the enormity of the numbers of deaths there? This is a contentious issue. Police could not confirm if a full excavation of the site was planned. During the era when the home was in operation, the Catholic Church ran most of Irelands social service programs. So is there an inquiry? Between 1925 and 1961, 796 infants died. The report concludes that the mortality rate was 'high', with 300 deaths between 1943 and 1946. She said that she had discovered a gruesome cemetery in the convent's basement where the tiny bodies were buried, along with the young nuns who refused to take part in the orgies. Then, like a bolt from the blue, I had a great revelation: I was talking to myself in an empty room. 'There was a nice girl there. AFRICANGLOBE - The bodies of 796 children, between the ages of two days and nine years old, have been found in a disused sewage tank in Tuam, County Galway. **CoyoteBlue32**Your hunka-hunka burnin' monkey-lovin! Local landmarks featured in book about spooky sites - Unexplained Research They moved the concrete and discovered a hole which, Frannie Hopkins has described as being "full of skeletons of children". Why That Story About Irish Babies "Dumped In A Septic Tank" Is - Forbes The skeletons were not counted and the area has not been dug up since. It wasn't limited to religious >books, either, novels had villanous priests, monks, and victimized nuns.>. In one chamber, the demon looms up before her on the wall in shadow form . The Church operated as a quasi social service in the 20th century and the mother and baby homes were run in a similar fashion to the Magdalene Laundries, where single women who became pregnant were sent away. Indeed, history is full of terrifying tales of people who were bricked up or buried alive. The Bon Secours nuns released a statement through a PR company on Thursday. Mass Grave For Babies Discovered Under Catholic Nunnery - AfricanGlobe.Net Conspiracies & Catholicism: Nunsense - Catholic Stand So what was to stop them from crawling back out and eating theflesh of the living? As the fundraising appeal began, the story appeared in twolocal newspapers the Tuam Herald and the Connacht Tribune last October. Ireland Says 9,000 Babies Died in Catholic Homes but It Was Society's Why would the Dispatch even consider passing it along in print? Poorly treated? There was no love, no nothing, Mr Haverty told CBC Radio. It was made up so that people would pay for the indulgences that would free the souls of their loved ones. -- Madeleine Page, on the deep truths of alt.folklore.urban. 400 Sexually Abused Children Found Buried Under Catholic Church Most, aged between three weeks and 13 months, are described as 'fragile, pot-bellied and emaciated', 31 are listed as 'poor babies, emaciated and not thriving'. The priest came over and blessed it. Immurement, or the complete enclosure of a human being into a small space with no escape, was historically a common form of punishment across cultures throughout history. Its horrific what they did, Ms Corless said. Thousands of bones have been unearthed in two ossuaries discovered in the Vatican City, as part of an ongoing search for clues into the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl more than three decades ago.