Case file · Witch trials
The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio
In 1859 the princess Katharina von Hohenzollern, a novice at the Roman convent of Sant'Ambrogio della Massima, denounced its mistress of novices, revered as a living saint, for fake visions, poisoning and sexual abuse; the Inquisition tried the case.
1859 CE · 41.89, 12.48 · status: official
The sceptical view
The Inquisition found the claimed heavenly letters and visions were frauds. Historian Hubert Wolf reconstructed the file in 2013.