Word: flogging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specifically, two men and eight women members of the cult were convicted of having entered the oratory of a priest, the Abbé des Noyers, at Bombon,* and there stripped him naked, bound him to a table and flogged him with knotted ropes. One of the convicted, Mme. Robert, openly exulted that she had been the last to flog the Abbé before he swooned; and her 17-year-old daughter boasted that she had not only taken a hand in flogging the Abbé but had thrown pepper in his eyes...
...only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last to flog the Abbé des Noyers before he swooned, opened her testimony with a prayer. Said she: "We were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorcery." "She lies!" cried the Abbé des Noyers. Later, the 17-year-old daughter of Mme. Robert, described...