Hubert Wolf: The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal [2015] hardback GRAPH I never understood that connection

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Hubert Wolf: The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal [2015] hardback GRAPH I never understood that connectionDiscovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never before told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent. In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's