This Nun Got Pregnant Twice, Terrified Other Sisters, and Connived in Murders
From celibacy to imprisonment
Few people were born for asceticism. Some folks decide to abstain from marriage and sex when they are just teenagers. But you can’t reach such decisions for life when you’re barely 13. Other people can’t decide it for you either.
Often you don’t know yourself so much that your own wishes and urges surprise you later in life. It happens to us all. But when it happens to someone devoted to God, they’re in big trouble.
Sister Virginia Maria was a 17th-century Italian nun who’d be controversial even today. She broke her vow of chastity and gave birth to two children. When another nun threatened to reveal her affair, Maria’s boyfriend murdered her. And Maria just kept quiet and made others be quiet as well.
It didn’t end up well.
From a Rich Heiress to a Devout Nun
The Nun of Monza was born in 1575 as Marianna de Leyva y Marino. Her mother Virginia died before Marianna’s first birthday, so the girl was raised by her aunts until she was 13.
Marianna’s rich mother wanted to leave half of her possession to Marianna and the other half to her son from the first marriage Marco Pio. But Marco’s sisters…
