March 6, 2025

Ex-Convento de Santa Mónica (The Secret Convent of Santa Mónica)

Ex-Convento de Santa Mónica (The Secret Convent of Santa Mónica)

Our father, who art in heaven...In this episode of Susto, Ayden delves into the haunted corridors and history of the Ex Convent of Santa Mónica in Puebla, Mexico. A building with a long, sordid history that has left scars and legends deep in the city....

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Our father, who art in heaven...In this episode of Susto, Ayden delves into the haunted corridors and history of the Ex Convent of Santa Mónica in Puebla, Mexico. A building with a long, sordid history that has left scars and legends deep in the city.

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Hey, girlfriends, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I

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or watching Soustal, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin

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this pretty late at night, so I'm trying to I'm trying.

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I'm being very honest here with you, and I'm trying

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to keep the energy up. But it is about to

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be ten, which is my bedtime. But things have been hectic.

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I put the heck in hectic, so this was my

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this was my chance tonight to record this episode. And

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stay on schedule so that I'm not scrambling literally at

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the last minute to post this up. Thank you for

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your patience and for showing me grace and kindness as

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I push through and muster up all the energy, any

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energy that I have left me for today. And also

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not only that, but to you all know I've said

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this many times. I do not record or edit at night.

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But here we are. I'm trying not to like imagine

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things in my proof, so you and me we're locked

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in together. If you see anything, do not tell me again.

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This is my ghost friend right here. That is the

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only ghost allowed in this room, in this apartment, to

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be honest. So anyway, not too many updates. I do

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have a favor to ask you. I put a call

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out on social media and on Patreon. I want to

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basically a sustal Q and a to get to know

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me a little better. I know that I pour my

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heart out on this show constantly, but if you would

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like to get to know me a little bit more,

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and to officially introduce you all to my ghost writer, Jeff.

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You'll have heard me mention Jeff many times, but I

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do want to give you the opportunity to get to

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know him better because now he is officially part of SUSTAL.

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He is helping me research and write these stories. And yeah,

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if you all have any questions about him, us as

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a unit, like a working unit here on SUSTAL, us

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as a couple, we've been together for ten years this year. Now,

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questions for me individually, just any questions that you have

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about Sustal, about us, please feel free to send them in.

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I don't think you all would get too wild, but honestly,

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you've heard the things that I've said on this show,

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the things that I've shared. So what isn't left field

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or what really truly would be pushing that boundary? Why

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don't you test it? You send me an email a

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DM if you find the post on social media commented,

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I'll be posting it on stories again. We're going to

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be accepting a few more questions. We have some great

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ones already, but I want to give everybody the opportunity.

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So I was thinking, let me say this on the

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show itself so that everybody can hear it. So again,

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we'll be doing a SUSTO Q and A which I'm

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thinking about making it an episode, of course, available to everybody,

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and then the video version kind of like maybe vlog

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style interview. I don't know. It'll be something with Jeff

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and I so that you all again can get to

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know me a little bit better, maybe if you'd like to,

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and to introduce you officially to Jeff. I keep motioning

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over here. This is Jeff right here. Those little ghost

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pill up that's him, but not really, just pretend that

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he's here. So yeah, just wanted to put that out

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there because I'm very excited about the idea of doing that.

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It is going to happen, but I'm very excited about

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making it happen. Speaking of making things happen, let's make

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this episode happen. Before we do, I do want to

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give a kind of warning. Listener discretion advised. Please always

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take care of yourselves if you feel like you need

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to dip. This episode is not for you. I obviously

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completely understand, but I do want to give a heads

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up so it doesn't catch you off guard that in

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this episode there are mentions of rape, abuse and violence

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against women. So again, listener discretion advised. And with that

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being said, let's go ahead and jump into today's episode,

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which is the story of the ex Convento the Santa Monica.

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In the heart of Pueblo, Mexico. Down an old cobblestone street,

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stands an unassuming building with high stone walls and heavy

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wooden doors. By day it is a museum filled with

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sacred paintings, gilded crosses, and artifacts of faith. But by night,

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something else lingers, something that never left. For centuries. Those

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walls held secrets. The cries of the tormented echo through

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the cold corridors. Shadows move where no one should be,

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and if you listen just closely enough, you might hear

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the whispered prayer of a long dead nun, still begging

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for salvation. This is the story of the ex Gunvento

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the Santa Monica. Long before it became a convent, the

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building was something far darker. In sixteen, a wealthy and

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devout woman named Dona Ursula de Vega established it as

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a house of confinement for women deemed unfit for society. Here,

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noble families sent their disobedient daughters, unwonted wives, and wayward

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young women to be reformed. Some had committed crimes, others

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had simply spoken too freely loved the wrong person, or

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disobeyed their fathers or patriarchs of the home. Once inside,

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they were locked away, forced into silence and prayer, their

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bodies and souls broken, until they were deemed pure enough

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to return to the world. If they were ever allowed

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to leave at all. Murmurs of the reformatory's goings on

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spread among the locals, Tales of women who entered and

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were never seen again, of cries in the night of

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graves ug beneath the floors. Around sixteen eighty the house

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was repurposed into a convent by doctor Manuel Fernandez de

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Santa Cruz, and the past was buried away, but the

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walls never forget. Now an Augustinian recollect convent, Santa Monica

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became a place of prayer and devotion. The nuns lived

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in strict seclusion, sworn to a lifetime of silence and sacrifice.

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To the outside world. It was a sanctuary, but inside

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something was rotting. Young women, many against their will, were

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forced into holy vows by their families. Some had known

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love before, only to have it ripped away and replaced

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with cold stone walls. Some dared to no pleasure, a

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carnal sin, and paid the price. The convent's leaders, us

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with preserving purity, took their roles to terrifying extremes. Nuns

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who spoke out were punished, locked away in dark isolation cells,

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where some went mad. Those who showed weakness in their

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faith were given painful penances, from wearing spiked chains beneath

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their habits to whipping themselves bloody in the name of redemption.

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Some still driven to despair, dyed by suicide, hanging from

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the rafters of their tiny chambers, or flinging themselves from

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the convent's highest tower. And yet these were not the

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worst of the convin's sins. In eighteen fifty seven, the

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Mexican government enacted the Liberal Reform laws, ordering the closure

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of all religious institutions. The nuns should have left, but

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they didn't. Instead, they sealed themselves inside, vanishing from the world,

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surviving in silence, believing that as long as they prayed,

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as long as they remained faithful, God would protect them.

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At first, the people of Puebla helped them, smuggling in food, medicine,

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and other supplies, but as the years stretched into decades,

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the outside world began to forget them. The convent became

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an echo a faint memory. The Augustinian nuns were a

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contemplative order and did not sing, and in that silence,

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monsters flourished and the women suffered. One of the nuns

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was only sixteen when she arrived before the convent went

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into isolation, sent by her father to atone for a

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sin she never committed. The young nun dreamed of the

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world outside of color and warmth and laughter, but inside

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Santa Monica, the only warmth came from the candle flames

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at the altar. One night, the head mistress sent for her.

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A visitor had arrived, a priest who would visit the

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convent in secret. Dressed in fine black robes, his face

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hidden by the flickering light. She was led into a

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candlelit chamber and told to confess. The priest listened, and

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instead of offering absolution, his hand caressed her wrist. She

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could not protest. She was conditioned to submit to church leaders,

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no matter their request. In her silence, the priest went

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beyond simply touching her wrist. For years he came to

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the convent under the cover of darkness. The young nun

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was not the only one who suffered his advances, which

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betrayed his vows and destroyed the minds and bodies of

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the women in the convent. When the young nun's belly

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began to swell, the other nuns turned the other cheek,

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whispering prayers instead of offering solace. There was no pity

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in their eyes, only fear. A child born within those

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walls could not be allowed. One night, she was led

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away by an elder sister. Not all of the women

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who suffered in the convent were victims. Some were monsters

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in their own right. The elder sister was one of

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those monsters, a woman who believed that suffering was the

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path to salvation. When the convent fell into darkness, she

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did not despair. She thrived. She punished the weak, She

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silenced the disobedient, And when the young nun came to

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her with a belly too large to hide in her tunic,

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the elder sister led her to the well behind them convent.

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No one claims to know what happened, but they all

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heard the hollow splash, and the young nun never returned.

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By May nineteen thirty four, the government raided the convent,

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expecting to find an abandoned ruin. Instead, they found nuns

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who had never set foot outside. Women so pale they

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looked like ghosts, their fingers curled and gnarled from decades

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of clutching rosaries. And beneath the floors they found bones.

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The first were small, infant bones, twisted and frail. Some

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were buried beneath the chapel, others hidden in the thick

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stone walls. Their skulls were cracked, as if they had

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not simply been laid to rest, but discarded. Then they

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found the women. Some had been walled up alive, skeletons

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frozen in the fetal position, their bones pressing against the

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inside of the bricks, as if they had clawed at

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the stone until their final breath escaped their lungs. Others

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bore signs of violence, fractured skulls, shattered ribs, broken jaws.

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Some had chains still wrapped around their wrists and ankles,

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their bones locked in eternal pennance. The most disturbing were

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the remains of pregnant women. Their bodies showed clear evidence

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of abuse. Some still had iron spikes pressed into their bones,

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a cruel form of atonement meant to purify their sins.

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In a single chamber, they found dozens the walls were

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painted a rust color, not with frescoes, but with old,

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dried blood. Somewhere beneath the convent, hidden behind a stone

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wall their there is a room that no one speaks of.

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It was not meant for prayer or penance, rather for

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something sinister, between the nuns who refused to obey and

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the infants who were never meant to live. No one

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knows how many bodies lie beneath the convent. No records

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exist of how many were found. The officials who oversaw

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the investigation kept silent. Today, the Exgunvento de Santa Monica

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is a religious art museum, filled with relics of faith,

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golden altars, and portraits of nuns whose faces remain eerily lifelike,

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but something else remains. Visitors report disembodied voices in the corridors,

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murmuring prayers in an empty chapel. Some say they have

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felt cold hands brushed against their shoulders, or heard the

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quiet sobs of the many women trapped between worlds. Among

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these spirits is a figure and a blome, blood stained habit,

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sometimes seen near the well, rocking back and forth, muttering

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prayers that no one can understand. Some see a young

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nun that still walks the halls, her ghostly form clutching

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her stomach, singing lullabies to the child she was never

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allowed to hold. The most terrifying legend speaks of a

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crying nun, a spectral figure seen standing at a window,

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her veil soaked in blood. Some say she was a

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young woman forced into the convent who died by suicide

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rather than bear the shame of her alleged sin. Visitors

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to the museum sometimes report hearing a soft scratching sound

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near the floorboards of the old dormitory. Some say it

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is just the wood settling, others believe it is the unborn,

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still trying to claw their way into this world. So

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if you ever find yourself and Puebla standing before the

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threshold of the ex Convento the Santa Monica, ask yourself,

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do you dare step inside? Welcome back, cool friends. Okay,

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that one. I'm glad I gave that listener discretion kind

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of warning. That one was pretty intense. And this is

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a real place. These stories, these legends, they there stories

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and legends. So many of the things in this story

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they're tall tales, they're rumors, so they're like they're posted

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out there on the internet. Obviously we're not just gonna

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up stories. But this is one of those places that

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exists and it has this really like lurid kind of

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mysterious history, and people, you know, when Ith and I'm like,

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you know, added their bits and pieces to it. I

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don't know. It's one of those where there's a lot

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of legend around it, and it's basically what I'm trying

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to say is it's it's unfounded. Many, if not all,

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of these things have not been proven to be true.

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took a life of its own. Some of these things

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are true, however, So a note here from Jeff. He

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wrote some historical background about the liberal reform laws that

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led to the convent going secret. So this actually did happen.

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This was a place that it was a reformatory. So

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this is a place where they sent quote unsavory women

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to go basically to go get fixed, quote right, places

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that we know now existed but were just terrible places

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where people were sent away. People were discarded basically for

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whatever reason, from like real mental health issues to simply

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being inconvenient to somebody else, or being considered inconvenient because

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they weren't actually but anyway, So this continues. The Catholic

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Church in Mexico had supported the French invasion of Mexico

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since they believed that it would bring the country closer

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to traditional Catholicism as opposed to blending of Catholicism and

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indigenous practices that was happening in the country. Surprise, surprise,

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the church was like, yes, please, more colonization, bring it

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on right, instead of allowing this like folk Catholicism as

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I think we have learned to call it, letting that

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happen and like bloom and like be its own thing,

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they were like, nope, no room for that. Christianity Catholicism

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only so French people come over here and help us

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out right. So this continues. So after supporting the first

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French invasion in the eighteen thirties and the overthrow of

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the dictator Santa Ana, liberals in Mexico had a strong reaction.

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They crafted a constitution that put strict rules on churches

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and claimed property. It was a very anti Catholic time

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in the country, so many churches went into hiding. This

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convent is one of the ones that went into hiding.

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Here's more information about a lot of f or the

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liberal reform laws, and this is a Wikipedia link. So

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these reform laws that sent essentially, they sent these churches

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into hiding. They took power away from the churches, I think,

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essentially what was happening. It's known or this era is

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known as Latiforma, and this Wiki entry says in the

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history of Mexico, Latiforma or the reform or reform laws,

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that were enacted in the Second Federal Republic of Mexico

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during the eighteen fifties after the Plan of Autla overthrew

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the dictatorship of Santa Ana. They were intended as modernizing

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measures social, political, and economic, aimed at undermining the traditional

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power of the Catholic Church and the army. I'm into

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these laws already, these reform laws. The reforms sought separation

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of church and state, equality before the law and economic development.

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These anti clerical laws were enacted in the Second Mexican

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Republic between eighteen fifty five and eighteen sixty three, during

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the governments of Juan Alvarez, Ignacio Gomonfort, and Benito Juatz.

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The laws also limited the ability of Catholic Church and

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Indigenous communities from collectively holding land. Okay, pause, give the

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indigenous communities their land. What the fuck are you talking about? Okay?

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So then this says the Liberal government sought the revenues

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from the distalment of church property, which could fund the

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civil war against Mexican Conservatives and to broaden the base

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of property ownership in Mexico and encouraging private enterprise. Several

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of them were raised to constitutional status by the Constituent

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Congress that drafted the Liberal Constitution of eighteen fifty seven.

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Although the laws had a major impact on the Catholic

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Church in Mexico, liberal proponents were not opposed to the

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church as a spiritual institution, but rather saw a secular

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state and a society not dominated by religion. So I

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feel like generally I agree with that. Again, I have

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some hesitancy with the taking the land from indigenous communities,

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but it seems like there I'm not trying to justify this,

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but what I getting from that is that they were

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just like, nope, clean slate, everybody's equal. It doesn't matter

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who you are. But then that doesn't that's not actually

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equal then, because they're stealing this land from indigenous people anyway.

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So you get the idea. These reform laws were to

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take power from the church, and so that's why these

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churches had to go into hiding, right. You know, people

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you were kind of turning their backs on the church

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or maybe like being vehemently against it, and so they

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were like, Okay, we gotta we've got to tone it down,

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tone down the Catholicism, you know what I mean. So

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we have a couple links here that we're going to

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go through. This first one is from a adventures dot

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abroad or adventures dash abroad dot com. It's a blog

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entry and it's just generally about Buebla, Mexico. Again, all

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of these links, the direct links will be in these

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houst to Google docs on Patreon, but on Adventures Abroad,

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they're again just talking about Bubbla, Mexico. It's kind of

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like the history of Buebla and let's see a little

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bit about it, says As noted in the introduction, Buebla

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is the only major Mexican city that was actually founded

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by the Spanish and not by the indigenous peoples already

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on site. Well, they didn't have to found it, they

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were already there, Okay. Anyway, it says by fifteen thirty

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it was apparent that Mexico City was going to be

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the capital and most important city in New Spain, as

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the Spanish named what is now Mexico and huge swaths

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of western United States. Vera Cruz was the Atlantic port

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that was the major entry and exit point for the colony.

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Buebla was founded in fifteen thirty one as a stopping

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point on the main road connecting Veracruz and Mexico City.

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As is often the case with cities founded by a

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religious order, as was Buebla, there is a certain amount

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of gobbledegooch, that's what it says here, associated with why

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it was founded where it was. In Buebla's case, the

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Mexico City bishops supposedly had a dream of angels drawing

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out the outline of a city in a place of

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rivers and woods. He marched his minions out into the country,

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and when they found a place suitable for a new

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city because it had water and lumber, he knew this

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must be the place. Thus the original name Buebla de

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Los Angeles or City of Angels. Thankfully, it eventually got

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shortened into just Buebla one los Angeles in North America.

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Is enough who wrote this this is funny? Well, as

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I scrolled to the bottom, there are also pictures here

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of well many places in Buebla. But they also talk

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about the Museo the Santa Monica or Museo the Arete Reljoso,

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the Santa Monica, And here it says. In eighteen fifty seven,

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Mexico adopted a new constitution that effectively nationalized all church

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property and ended its role as a political player, always

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on the side of conservative forces in the back and

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forth of Mexican politics since independence in eighteen twenty one. However,

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the Church did not stop its meddling and actively supported

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the two French attempts to take over Mexico. Pretends to

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be shocked. Eventually, most Mexicans were fed up, and they

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turned on the church and treated priests and nuns as

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subversive enemies. The shoe was now on the other foot,

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and the clergy were forced to go into hiding. Graham Greens.

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The Power and the is based on one such priest

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in the province of Tabasco and is well worth reading

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if you want to know more about the long and

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shaky relationship between church and state in Mexico. This continues,

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believe it or not, until nineteen thirty four. The Museo

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de Santa Monica was a secret convent where nuns lived

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behind closed walls, going about their business unbeknownst to outside

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authorities for decades. Today it is the repository of a

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large number of religious artworks, as well as an example

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of how the nuns led their lives without anyone knowing

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they were there. That's really creepy, to be honest. I mean,

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like there's nothing inherently creepy about it. They were just people, right,

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but that they were living in secret within the city,

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and like they just went unnoticed for that long is

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It's just weird to me that they were just there.

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But it wouldn't be weird because you didn't know that

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they were there, right. I don't know. This finishes up here.

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Some of the artwork was good, Okay, this is just

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his person's opinion because they went to go visit and

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there's pictures of the art from there. Okay. At the

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very end, this says many thanks again to Dale for

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his wonderful insight. It's learn more about his adventures on

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the Maritime Explorer. So I guess the person that wrote

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this entry. Their name is Dale, and this is published

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in May of twenty nineteen. So Dale, if you're out there,

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thank you for your contribution. The next source that we

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have here, this is from the Catholic Travel Guide dot com.

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This is just a short entry says during the persecution

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of Catholics in the early twentieth century, most monasteries, convents,

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and churches were closed by the government. Okay, so they

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were forcefully closed. I was wrong earlier. Their very existence

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would put the occupants under immediate threat of death by

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the Mexican soldiers who massacred many during that period. So

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it was really that serious, Okay. That this convent and

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its inhabitants survived is a bit of a miracle. Maybe

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divine intervention, you might say. This continues. The Augustinian nuns

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here were a contemplative order. I put this in the

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story and did not seeing, which certainly would have helped

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to hide their presence. A contemplative order. I look this up,

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a contemplative order of nuns. It's nuns who worship through

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meditation and silent like they're contemplated, right, So it's meditation, silence,

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a lot of that. It's not really like singing, proselytizing,

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like doing things out loud. This continues. Yet there were

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those who surely knew and chose to remain silent rather

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than betrayed the sisters. So even local officials appear to

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have ignored them until one chose not to and had

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the convent raided. I guess it's not as creepy. They

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weren't really just kind of like lurking around and nobody

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knew it was. It was like an open secret. People knew,

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but they were like, whatever, they don't bother anybody. We're

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going to leave them alone. They're doing their own thing.

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This says. It was then discovered that several dozen nuns

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lived there. They were promptly expelled and the convent was closed.

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And then again today it talks about how it's a museum,

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wonderful glimpse into the past and how the nuns lived.

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And the next horse that we have here the next

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link it is a lugadis Duristicos and Mexico dot com.

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This is the Museum of Religious Art ex convento, the

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santhem and again pictures here. It's a pretty place. I

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would go visit this for sure, it says. It talks

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about it being a museum. Of course, it says. The

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former convent of Santa Monica is a seventeenth century building

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modified in later centuries, dominated by the Buebla Baroque style,

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which can be seen especially in the facades of the

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patio the professas covered with da la vera tile and betatillo,

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which are bricks at an angle like Bethata seems. However,

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the main facade on eighteen Street is of neoclassical style.

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We have any architecture heads out there use tell us

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what this means. The museum reconstructs the life of the

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nuns through twenty three permanent exhibition rooms and two courtyards,

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the professed and the novices. Again more pictures of it here.

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They talk about the legend, so again it says, it

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is said that the nuns and the women, this is

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where we hear some of these like rumors, these alleged stories.

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It says, the nuns in women who inhabited this religious

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space suffered abuse, rape, confinement, and inhumane punishments in order

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to inflict offering related to the love of God or

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simply for not following religious norms. So it was either

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punishment or penance, right, which I feel like are the

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same thing, but one is strictly devoted to like for

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the sake of religious enlightenment. I don't know exactly how

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to say that, but you get the idea. This continues.

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Despite the beauty and history of the former convent of

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Santa Monica, the stories hidden within its walls are quite dark.

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The legend goes back to the year sixteen oh nine.

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Again it said that Ursula Vega opened the house of

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confinement for women as a way to reform their behavior. Again,

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what we know now was behavior that probably didn't need

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to be reformed. They were simply just existing and maybe, yeah,

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I don't know. People were like that woman is too loud,

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she's too independent, she's too opinionated. Something's wrong with her

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center away right, and this says, well, not right, but

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that's kind of what the mentality may have been. Then

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this continues. However, it also sheltered the order of the

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nuns of sant A Monica, and it was doctor Monmouth

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Fernandez de Santa Cruz who reform this place in sixteen

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seventy nine. The dates were a little fuzzy. Jeff and

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I found different dates. I saw this one sixteen seventy nine,

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00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:09.720
and he saw another one that said at like sixteen

463
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:12.279
eighty two. So I just rounded it out, even it

464
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:14.680
out to sixteen eighty around there to provide them with

465
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.680
an equal space, including spaces such as oratories, a new church,

466
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.519
and even cells. Cells or rooms. Cells is a very

467
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:24.920
specific word. I don't know. This place was closed down

468
00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:28.279
by the government due to allegations of irregularities. It is

469
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:31.079
said that the nuns and women who inhabited this religious

470
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:35.240
space suffered again abuse, rape, confinement, in human punishments in order,

471
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.720
you know, for the love of God. In some areas

472
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.119
of the former convent, skeletons of fetuses and even the

473
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:43.920
skeleton of a woman who may have shown signs of

474
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.680
pregnancy have been found. There's no source for this, there's

475
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:50.599
now I don't see any link for that, so I'm

476
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:53.799
not sure how true that is. But this person is

477
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.279
saying that there were bodies, there were remains found there.

478
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.480
Workers and visitors have reported the appearance of a woman

479
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.640
dressed in white in the dark and gloomy corridors of

480
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:09.000
this facility. So again, lots of legend, lots of stories,

481
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:11.200
but so far that's just what they are stories, right,

482
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.079
there's no con I haven't seen. We haven't seen any concrete.

483
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:17.599
It was documented, this is you know, it was in

484
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.559
the news or I want to be very careful about

485
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.640
this because this involves very sensitive topics and if there

486
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:24.920
are real people that were affected, like you know, you

487
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:28.000
want to do your due diligence and we're trying here.

488
00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:31.000
But again, it couldn't find anything that said yes, for

489
00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.680
sure this happened. There's one that just kind of it's

490
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.960
like a quick promotion like these are the hours of operation,

491
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.319
but it's included here it says, have you ever been

492
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:40.920
inside an ancient convent? Are you interested in finding out

493
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:43.640
more about the life of nuns and their secluded environment?

494
00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:46.039
At the Museo de at dere Lejoso, you will have

495
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:49.240
the chance to experience an extraordinary adventure into the hidden

496
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.200
world of religious art and those who contributed to its existence.

497
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.200
Home to the museum is the ex Convento Santa Monica,

498
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:58.319
which will amaze you with its baroque decorated entry, its

499
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:01.480
kitchen cells, and its seventeenth Entry Temple, open Tuesday through

500
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.319
Sunday from ten am till five pm. Good to know

501
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:06.359
in case you're there. I wonder when this was last

502
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:10.200
updated because maybe those are still the hours. But this

503
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.039
is gpsmcity dot com. Just a quick promo if you

504
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.240
want to go visit the museum. The next one that

505
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.319
we have here, this is a Lugadi is dot I

506
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:25.079
n A h dot gob dot MX. And this is

507
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:30.400
just Museo X Convento the Santa Monica and this is

508
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.119
showing it like on the map. Oh cool. And this

509
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:35.440
is it has a bunch of like pictures and stuff,

510
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:39.960
so it's showing pictures of the permanent exhibition collections, the spaces.

511
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.920
This is really neat. And this is just mainly it's

512
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:46.319
it's a slideshow of pictures of this place. And again

513
00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:48.440
they look really nice. Again, this is Lugats dot I

514
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:52.400
nah dot gob dot m X and direct links will

515
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:55.960
be in Patreon. But it it looks really nice. These

516
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:58.960
tile the tiling is gorgeous on this like courtyard area.

517
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.039
It's very well madeined. You can definitely see like the

518
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.319
architecture styles and how they differ. It looks really really

519
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.559
cool and the last one. This is a very very

520
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.759
long source entry, but it would be worth a read

521
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.480
if you have the time for it. But this really

522
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.839
delves into the depths of this place, and by I

523
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:23.720
mean literal depth. This is from Bravista Dash liber or

524
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.039
lived l I B E. R dot Org and this

525
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.640
says news and legends surrounding the discovery of the Convent

526
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.079
of Santa Monica. And this is like about the full investigation.

527
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:38.079
This is by Fordananda Melshore Melcore or how would you

528
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.839
say it in Spanish. I've only heard that pronounced Melcore

529
00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:44.319
and I'm thinking of Tracy Milk melt or Melshore, Tracy

530
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.039
Melshore from drag Race, Canada. Right. But this is by

531
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.799
Fananda And when was this published? I don't see a date.

532
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.720
But this is really cool. It's broken down into cool sections.

533
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:55.920
So it talks about the search. So this says it

534
00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.839
happened on a Friday morning, May eighteenth, nineteen thirty four.

535
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.720
The first to notice the Lisa's arrival where the residents

536
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:06.759
of eighteen Street about a dozen hendamus gendarmes odmis. I'm

537
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.039
thinking maybe like that's like cops or something, accompanied by

538
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:13.160
officials who said they were this was translated from me.

539
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:14.640
It was just Spanish. I think that's why I don't

540
00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.160
recognize that word. But accompanied by officials who said there

541
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.359
were representatives of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Attorney

542
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.480
General's office entered the house marked with the number one

543
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:27.039
oh three and proceeded to evacuate its inhabitants to conduct

544
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.920
a search inside the home. The adjoining house, marked with

545
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:32.759
the number one oh one, was also evacuated and searched

546
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:35.599
throughout that day. There's a quote here. The Convent of

547
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:40.839
Santa Monica, hidden behind the facades of recently raided houses,

548
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:43.839
still served as a home for just over twenty Augustinian

549
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:47.319
recollect nuns. So just over twenty we have a closer

550
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:49.799
number who not only lived in the most complete and

551
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.319
clandestine seclusion, but also hid in ghostly crips and tunnels

552
00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:58.279
that extended beneath the streets of Puebla. A splendid treasure,

553
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.880
it says, A splendid treasure. Indeed, that says by nightfall,

554
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:06.680
rumors were already spreading throughout Anchelopolis. The police were replaced

555
00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:10.079
by a troop of army infantrymen who set up roadblocks

556
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:14.320
and surrounded the entire block. Federal forces were concentrated on

557
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:19.119
sixteen Avenue, three Norte and five the Mile streets, and

558
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.159
even closed down the church located on the corner of

559
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.800
eighteen Pente, famous and very popular for housing the miraculous

560
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:29.079
Lord of Wonders. Apparently, it was rumored government agents had

561
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:32.519
finally discovered what was an open secret in the neighborhood that,

562
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:35.639
despite the strict laws that then prohibited the existence of

563
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.719
convents and monasteries, Santa Monica, hidden behind the facades of

564
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:42.519
the recently rated houses, still served as a home for

565
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.840
just over twenty Augustinian recollect nuns, who not only lived

566
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:48.559
in the most complete and clandestine we read this part seclusion,

567
00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:51.079
but also hid in crypts and goosty tunnels that extended

568
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:55.000
beneath the streets, beneath the streets of Puebla. Again, a

569
00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:59.599
splendid treasure, it says, that is see now it's creepy again.

570
00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:01.360
I'm not going to read through all the sections, but

571
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.199
like part two, it's titled the Mysterious Treasure, there was

572
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:05.800
one that I scrolled by that I want to I

573
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.440
want to read Part three, a Mexican Sherlock Holmes, which

574
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:10.280
I think is the name of the person that led

575
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.280
the investigation. Valente Quintana's first nickname was Elzoro or the Fox,

576
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.000
due to his ingenuity and cunning in investigating and solving

577
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.840
the most intricate criminal cases of his time, including the

578
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:25.760
assassination of President elect Alvaro Obregon, killed in July nineteen

579
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:27.920
twenty eight at the hands of the young religious fanatic

580
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.559
Josse de Leonral. He was also in charge of the

581
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:33.320
investigations that sought to solve the murder of Cuban student

582
00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:36.599
leader Juan Antonio Maya, who was shot in January nineteen

583
00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:38.960
twenty nine while walking through the streets of Mexico City

584
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.960
and the company of his partner, the artist Tina Modotti.

585
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:44.840
The same year, Quintana would also discover the culprits of

586
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:48.800
a railway attack intended to kill President Emilio Bortes. And

587
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:52.159
then there's this is second etching, says Sunday May twenty,

588
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.719
nineteen thirty four. De le forro Josa, representative of the

589
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:58.679
attorney Emilio Bortes. A company by representative the Treasury Department

590
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.239
and police officers into the hit, premises to proceed with

591
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:03.920
his closure, proceed with its closure. This almost put an

592
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.519
end to almost two hundred and fifty years of female

593
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.400
convent life. This looks like a like an etching. I

594
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:11.480
think I'm going to post this picture because it's like

595
00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:14.280
this to describe it to you. It's these two men

596
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:17.840
in suits looking at it looks like it's a shelf,

597
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:20.400
but there's like maybe an opening behind it. And there's

598
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:22.960
this nune just standing like between two shelves like she's

599
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.320
looking out at them. It's black and white. It looks

600
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:28.960
cool anyway. So this talks about Valenti Quintana. Okay, here's

601
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.119
the section I wanted to read, the Secret Passage. It's

602
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:34.719
part four. But right before that, it says, given this background,

603
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.480
it is not surprising that Quintana was the one supposedly

604
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:41.920
responsible for finding the secret door that led to the

605
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:45.719
mysterious labyrinth of the Convent of Santa Monica and Puebla.

606
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:48.360
It says the Secret Passage, but there are several versions

607
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.880
of how Valenti Quintana found that secret passage. Some sources

608
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.280
claim that the discovery of the convent did not take

609
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:56.599
place on May eighteen, nineteen thirty four, but about a

610
00:36:56.639 --> 00:37:00.159
month earlier, on April third, when Inspector Kintana and a

611
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:03.960
certain Florencio Gonzalez reported to the Attorney General's office the

612
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.400
existence of several convents in Puebla that were still operating

613
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.440
in different parts of the city, as well as the

614
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:12.679
departure from the country of several valuable objects belonging to

615
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:16.440
the nation. This report was ratified on May seventeenth before

616
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:19.639
the Public Ministry Agent assigned to Puebla, and in order

617
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.599
to corroborate the existence of said convents, a series of

618
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:25.079
searches were carried out, the first of which was carried

619
00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:27.920
out on May eighteenth in the houses marked with the

620
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:31.840
numbers one oh three and one oh one of Avenida eighteen.

621
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:35.519
With the results that we already know, it is possible

622
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.719
that Nanta had been sent by the federal government or

623
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:41.760
commissioned by the Puebla government to discover the exact location

624
00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:45.760
of the illegal monasteries. On the one hand, the existence

625
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.239
of these closures was an open secret in Puebla society.

626
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:51.960
There were a large number of people who collaborated with

627
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:55.159
the Augustinian nuns, performing various jobs and tasks for them.

628
00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:57.320
It is said that one of these collaborators, a certain

629
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:00.960
Antonio si Palacios gained the nuns trust and then betrayed

630
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:03.559
them and reported the existence of the monastery to the

631
00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:07.119
Buebla Treasury department. Damn, people really did not get church

632
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.000
at the time. I mean, these are country people, and

633
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:13.519
the church was like inviting France to just come in

634
00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:16.079
and function up. So I mean I can see that

635
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:18.519
they were like, fuck the church. We hate these people.

636
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:20.599
We're going to do what we can to get rid

637
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:23.599
of them. This continues. There is also another version that

638
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:26.519
says that the informant and person responsible for the closure

639
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:29.119
of the convent was an antique dealer who used to

640
00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.880
buy works of art from the nuns, and who, one day,

641
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:35.920
furious because the prior rest of the convent had demanded

642
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.679
too high a price for an old painting, got too

643
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:41.199
drunk in a bar and began to rant against the

644
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:44.079
nuns and boasts that he knew where the Santa Unica

645
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:48.719
Convent was. What a messy, messy bitch, Oh my god.

646
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:53.239
By chance, or perhaps thanks to his legendary cunning, Valentikindana

647
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:58.280
was present in that tavern. So yes by that drunk

648
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.079
person being there, and after questioning them merchant he managed

649
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:03.639
to extract from him the location of the convent and

650
00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:08.119
the secret device that allowed access to the passageway. Y'all,

651
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:10.840
this is intense. I'm going to read this entire thing

652
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:13.000
on my own time. I'm going to read one more

653
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.840
piece of this, it says. Other versions indicate that Kinana,

654
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.480
commissioned to investigate the possible existence of the reported monastery,

655
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.360
stood outside the church that houses the Lord of Wonders,

656
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.199
where he saw that people were constantly entering, but that

657
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.679
many of them did not come out again, which seemed

658
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.679
suspicious to him. He then decided to enter the temple,

659
00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:34.960
and while snooping around there, he discovered a passage behind

660
00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:38.599
the altar. So it was connected to this other church.

661
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:41.719
Oh my god, Okay, I know, I said, don't worry.

662
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.920
This is the last paragraph I'm going to read, this says.

663
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.840
It is also claimed that Kinhana did discover the secret

664
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:49.000
passageway on the day of the search of the house

665
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.559
marked with the number one oh three on eighteenth Street West.

666
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.519
He was looking through a cupboard when he saw a

667
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:56.320
painting that caught his attention next to a flower pot,

668
00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:58.519
and when he turned around, his trench coat got caught

669
00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:00.880
in the flower pot, where there was a cord that

670
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.280
rang a bell that served as a doorbell to communicate

671
00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:06.280
with the prior rest of the convent. Sister Marie Guadalupe

672
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.960
the drama y'all. She thinking that it was a member

673
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:12.559
of the family that lived in the house front opened

674
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:14.880
the door, but when she saw the detective shoes, she

675
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.199
tried to close it and ran to warn her fellow

676
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.519
cloistered women that they had been discovered. This needs to

677
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:24.840
be a movie. Is has there been a movie about this?

678
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:29.159
This is wild. I literally just got chills that this

679
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:32.440
isn't even scary. This is dra ma. I want to

680
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:35.760
see the limited series. I want to see the movie.

681
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:40.199
I want to see the documentary. Wow. Okay, then just

682
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:42.960
to give you the rest of these. Part five is

683
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:47.079
titled Brides of Christ. Part six is titled Defamatory Versions.

684
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.719
This is probably what talks about those things that happened, says.

685
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:52.440
I keep saying, I'm not gonna read it anymore so

686
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.239
you but you should come read the rest of this

687
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:56.679
either way. But this because this is talking specifically about

688
00:40:56.719 --> 00:40:58.679
you know, these the lore and the legends that came

689
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.480
out of this. It is possible that after the discovery

690
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:03.880
of the Convent of Santa monica, the collective memory of

691
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:07.079
the city rediscovered, so to speak, traces of a mystical

692
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.840
past that could no longer be reinterpreted except in the

693
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:12.599
form of exuberant legends. When it was open to the

694
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.480
public now as a museum of sacred art, visitors were

695
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:18.800
confronted with an incomprehensible world in which the colony and

696
00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:22.039
its Baroque customs seemed to be encapsulated. The pain and

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suffering that the Augustinian nuns used to voluntary inflict on

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themselves in order to be pleasing in the eyes of God,

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for example, or the tradition of the Monicas of burying

700
00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:37.559
deceased nuns in shallow tombs that allowed the smell of

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putrefaction of the bodies to escape, were elements that intensified

702
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the already ominous atmosphere that was breathed inside the old

703
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and ruined monastery and gave rise to wild fantasies. Listen,

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I always want to be respectful of like people's practices,

705
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especially religious practices, but this is self inflicted punishment, so

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to speak, to spiritually lift to yourself, to raise your

707
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yah yah ya. And one of those methods was to

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bury bodies in shallow graves to stink up the place.

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It is also possible that something this continues, that something

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of the unholy past of Santa Monica. After all, that

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00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.599
building had served for several decades as a reformatory for

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quote lost and quote runaway women, persisted equally in the

713
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imagination of the people of Puebla, feeding some of the

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00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:24.639
darkest legends of the convent, for example, that the building

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was used since colonial times as a kind of brothel

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where the youngest and most beautiful nuns served to satisfy

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the base instincts of the priests and hierarchs of the city.

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It was also said that until the very moment of

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its discovery, the place had served as a reformatory for

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girls of bad conduct who were locked up there by

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order of their parents. Many of these girls had supposedly

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ended up in the convent as punishment for having had

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extramarital sexual relations and having become pregnant, and it was

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the parents who decided whether the nuns should help the

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girl in childbirth, or if they preferred that she be

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given some herbal concoction to help her abort. Even more

727
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.239
lurid versions insisted on the discovery of hundreds of skulls

728
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:06.840
of aborted children, and there was even talk of the

729
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discovery of the wald up skeleton of a woman carrying

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a fetus in her womb. Oh my god, this is

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the I think, the closest we've gotten to like a

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real source. But again, this is saying that these are

733
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just kind of like, these are rumors essentially, But this is, like,

734
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I think, closer to the core of it. It says. More

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serious was the fact that for many years these gruesome

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and unfounded stories formed part of the information that the

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museum guides provided to visitors. Wows, the official museum guides

738
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were perpetuating these stories, which again are unfounded, is what

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this is saying. In an amusing chronicle called Santa Monica

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of Quebla, the Chilean archaeologist and folklorist Ricardo Latcham Cartwright,

741
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passing through the city during the fifties, recounts the unpleasant

742
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impression that a visit to the convent, by then already

743
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:56.639
converted into a museum into the art museum, made on him,

744
00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:59.440
partly due to the neglect and deterioration in which the

745
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:02.800
premises and its collections were found, but above all because

746
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of the childish complacency, in which, according to the Chronicler

747
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the quote, the superstitiousness of the national temperament and the

748
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:13.840
novelty and the popular imaginations end quote were mixed that

749
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:16.960
the museum visitors seemed to experience when listening to the

750
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:20.480
lugubrious stories of ghostly nuns and aboarded children told by

751
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.119
the guides themselves. Yeah, so this guy was like just

752
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:25.760
kind of over over it how it was being delivered,

753
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And it was a bunch of like as was mentioned

754
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by what was his name Dale earlier, it was a

755
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bunch of gobbledegook. That's the last of the sources that

756
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we have prepared for all here again. You check out

757
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that last and I'm gonna read through this whole thing later.

758
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It's Devista dash liber l I b E r dot

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org and it's just news and legends surrounding the discovery

760
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of the Convent of Santa Monica by Ferdananda Melshore. Look

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it up. Thank you again, Forerdananda, you welcome back, well friends,

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you so much to my co ghostwriter and researcher Jeffrey

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Doyle for helping me produce this story once again. If

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