text:  This transaction which happened in 1776 was submitted for the decision of the Papal See; when it appeared that the pretended prophetess had by means of many ingenious mechanical devices thus long imposed on public credulity whilst in the retirement of the cloister the most licentious and profligate occurrences nightly took place; and that when any unfortunate nun gave offence either by refusing to be sacrificed at the shrine of infamy or that it became desirable to get rid of her in order to appropriate for the convent the amount of her property she was immured in a dungeon left to perish by a lingering and miserable death and then privately buried in the night