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's so obvious I suspect that It has been done already. And, interestingly, makes the original statement about special areasin graveyards at least a 'P'. The paper ran an interview with Catherine Corless in which she detailed her work and research methods. 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. Is there any chance that this could be a one-off? The Nun features a memorable scene in which several main characters amble through a haunted crypt inside the Abbey. 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Grim reports that nearly 800 dead babies were discovered in the septic tank of a home run by nuns has set off a round of soul-searching in Ireland and sparked calls for accountability from government and Catholic Church officials. Members of Parliament have called for an immediate investigation into the 800 bodies found in the mass grave at the abandoned Catholic facility for unwed mothers. The slabs concealed the entrance to a Victorian septic tank built for the workhouse. Catherine Corless says: 'I know there are other mass graves and there are people wanting to recognise them. To her right runs the Parkmore. 'The nuns left without doing justice to those children', she says. But how do we know that they were buried in the former sewage tank? June 4, 2014 article: Inquisitr reported Tuesday about the discovery of nearly 800 bodies found in a septic tank on the property of a former Catholic mother and baby home.. The tank had been put out of use in the 1930s when it stopped working. All Rights Reserved. Aidan Crawley / EPA. In the same way they stopped the no meat on Fridays and now only during lent. "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," Flanagan said. It is possible to make a working union of absolutely everything. See:http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/hughes.htmlfor "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk", and other such drivel onthis theme. A Galway County Council archivist told her that none of the names appeared in any nearby cemetery. -- Nathan Tenny, >dexx@home.com wrote:>: In the very brief research I've done regarding this since I first>: posted here I've found that it DOES seem to be an urban legend common>: to many locales around the world. Tailored to suit himself and his life style. They just lay there in it.'. Thanks again! Church and state have repeatedly failed to help mothers whose children were sent for adoption in the 1950s and 1960s; some accuse them of operating a 'deny until they die' policy of stonewalling. ", or So I Was Told. Smythe. Blessings!! The public is outraged, and demands answers. By overlaying a map of the site as it looks today, she discovered that the place where the bones were discovered by the two boys in 1975 correlated exactly with where a sewage tank had been located during the building's workhouse days. 'There was nothing you could do. Brian Whelan, of Irelands national police, told CNN that police are not investigating the 800 bodies found in a mass grave outside the Catholic womens home, but he did say that the bodies were not found in a septic tank, but in a mass graveyard on the grounds. Local historian Catherine Corless at the site of the alleged mass grave in Tuam. I love cleaning out junk from cabinets and closets Ill be back with more. Source: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland. A friend of mine served an LDS mission in Peru and apparently heardthe same story there. The result was a shamefully high death rate, with measles and dysentery killing hundreds. They were all old with halitosis and long yellow fingernails.>If memory serves, these Handmaidens of God (nuns) were so horribly>undesirable, no one could possibly have believed a word of the rumors>being circulated by our>Protestant friends in the area.>. People, when they cook up stories like this, forget that not all babiesthat are born live very long. I'm not sure. Between 1925 and 1961, 796 infants died. Is this happening in convents today? Today is about remembering and respecting the dignity of the children who lived their short lives in this home, Katherine Zappone, Irelands minister for children and youth affairs, said in a statement on Friday. On the Urban Legend [www.urbanlegend.com] site there was the opinion thatpeople usually make up something sinister any time there are tunnelsespecially if not just anyone uses them. Until 1961 this had been the site of a Catholic religious community run by the Sisters of Bon Secours. 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. So, there can easily be babies in convents without any nuns or priestsbeing biological parents. Their mothers don't know where they're buried. They had bought the workhouse in the 1920s and converted it into a home for unmarried mothers. -- For a dining "experience" visit the "Killer Prawn" in Whangarei!Be served and charged for food *without even ordering it*!Let the staff treat you with undisguised condescension and contempt!Experience the total incompetence of the management! Comments? Thumbs up! Another was of the underground>tunnels between the rectory and the convent for secret trysts. nuns buried babies in walls. The babies were then left in the orphanage to be raised by the nuns. For anyone familiar with Ireland (I was brought up there in the 1950s and 1960s), the story of nuns consciously throwing babies into a septic tank never made sense. Barry Sweeney, one of the boys there that day, says: 'It was a concrete slab, but there was something hollow underneath it, so we decided to bust it open and it was full to the brim with skeletons. It is most likely that this will lead to a statutory inquiry into Tuam, and possibly into other Mother and Baby homes. I lost my faith in one incident: I was praying as hard as I could for a good outcome to a family problem, and had been praying for it for some time. He could still be alive or he's in the grave.'. Roman Catholic religious orders ran homes for unmarried pregnant girls until well into the 1990s all over Ireland. Hi there Im replying to your comment you made many years ago this is not true as I have done a Baptism course in the last two years and this was bought up it is definitely not a teaching of the catholic church of today.. as if the lord would do this to little children or babies. If a baby survived childbirth, they were separated from the children born from wedlock. Updated 11.14am IN THE SPACE of two weeks, the story about a mass grave at 50 000 t terremoto de los santos de 2015 (los santos sd, colmbia) 6,7 Un terremoto 1 (del latn terraemtus, a partir de terr Members of the Tuam Home Graveyard Committee, Bessboro home in Cork had an infant mortality rate of. The "dead babies come back to haunt the place they are buried (orwere killed)" was discussed at length in one of the chapters. A skeleton of a baby was being discovered encased in a wall inside the Monasterio de Santa Catalina in Arequipa in Peru. Their crime had to be hidden, their babies delivered in secret behind high walls, and their children taken away. Reuters. But the claim that priests got nuns pregnant and aborted babies were buried in the walls of the Villa is a direct attack against the priests and nuns who lived in this area and against the Catholic Church in general. The book is long gone. The first signs of the mass grave were spotted in 1975 when two young boys, playing in a field on the old site of the home found skeletons inside a hollow covered by a concrete slab. I don't understand how anyone could just cover over all that and forget that all that happened. In nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent, I covered stories of mass graves in far-flung locations in Eastern Europe and Russia. The Tuam home was demolished in 1972 and the nuns departed without any mention of the dead babies. As the story gathered attention, the Irish government in 2014 appointed a Mother and Baby Homes commission to investigate other such homes across the country. This was ( and probably still is) believed to to beabsolute truth, and only to be expected from followers of the Whore ofBabylon, in '50s Belfast.So probably not urban legend, but propaganda. Their babies were neglected, crowded into communal nurseries where infection and disease ran unchecked. Book today! Actually they got rid of Limbo a year or two ago. And Mark Twain, who was not a medievalist but played one in severalof his books, obliquely refers to the rumors as truths in"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Ivarfjeld have you considered your comment? The stories also had it that the infants were the result of>>sex between the nuns and local priests.>>>>To me this reeks of urban legendand the makings of a great (if>>controversial) horror movie. Former Mossad Chief: Israel must strike Iran before it getsnuclear, Pregnant nun ice cream advert banned formockery, Nun encased infant skeleton in the wall ofcloister. This rate is significantly higher than Ireland's infant mortality rates at the time. --Regards Ray "'I'm really the ghost of old Kate Batts'" D. There is a true story resembling this, usually called theButter Box Babies scandal, about babies being buried behinda maternity home in Nova Scotia. He wants not only the Catholic church but also the Irish government to apologise for the way he and others in the home were treated. The excellent researcher behind the @Limerick1914 Twitter account found contemporaneous reports that the Bon Secours nuns were paid 2,800 per year by the State in 1927 to look after the mothers and children in The Home. nuns buried babies in walls. It seems to be just one of those ugly things that people say. "This is a historical investigation going back to the 1950s. 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. Known by locals as The Home, it operated between the years 1925 and 1961. This is also the main reason why I cannot cooperate together with the Roman Catholic Institution against abortion. : > : > I bought a non-fiction paperback book about poltergeists and other paranormal: > haunting-type phenomena back in 1969. The Bon Secours nuns released a statement through a PR company on Thursday. But like you, I do question protestant Christians who can work together with Roman Catholics on moral issues and politics. A Dil debate in 1934 noted that one in three children who were born outside of marriage died within one year of their birth a rate which was about five times higher than for other children. It's been closed for more than 50 years? One major disgrace that needs to be admitted is the vast array of cases of the church stealing and selling babies.