SHORT STORY: There is no love in Sean Ross Abbey

I sit here tonight just 20 odd miles from Roscrea from Sean Ross
Abbey. Despite growing up about 12 miles from there I never knew the
human pain that existed behind those walls. Nuns were Holy women and
being from a large family.

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Editor’s Note:
This short story relates to the scandal surrounding the treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies in Ireland.

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by Anonymous

the author who contributed this short story is known to the editors

I sit here tonight just 20 odd miles from Roscrea and Sean Ross
Abbey. Despite growing up about 12 miles from there I never knew the human pain that existed behind those walls. Nuns were holy women and being from a large family.

I cycled out to some convent many Sundays – I cannot remember where – but I believed Nuns did good things. I used to say to my mother that I wanted to be a Nun – my mother would answer “Sister Mary who may never enter” and I didn’t despite my name not being Mary.

Tonight I visualise the young mother Philomena Lee whose baby the Nuns in Sean Ross Abbey sold to America. Philomena had named her baby boy Anthony.

Years went by and Philomena and grown up Anthony now named Michael
travelled long distances to Sean Ross Abbey and they were told by
Sister Hildegarde and others no information. For years they
travelled and were given no information of either of them seeking
the other. I recall many stories like this in the Nazi films over the
years following the Nazi control of Auschwitz and many countries.

The cruelest thing I feel tonight is when Anthony Lee  visited Sean Ross Abbey as a dying young man but still so loyal to his mother Philomena – he asked to be buried in Sean Ross Abbey because in his heart somehow he knew his mother would come looking for him.

But the Nuns at Sean Ross Abbey saw potential once again, they saw a
means to get some more money.  Did they not make enough on Anthony’s
birth? Now they wanted to profit from his death… My heart is torn at
the thought of it – how must it have been for his mother to know this.
The truth of this is that even as Anthony/Michael was dying and the
Nuns knew this they still would not give him information that his
mother was and had been looking for him for years.

Sean Ross Abbey Nuns told this dying young man that, yes, he could be
buried in their grounds but he would have to pay… I believe it was
thousands of Dollars. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus how you must hang your head
in shame as the Judases are still collecting their 30 pieces of silver
for silence of torture and abuse. God Bless you Anthony as your birth
came into Sean Ross Abbey for profit so did your body leave this earth
for profit of the most evil kind…Judases are everywhere for gain,
abuse and control…

May you Rest in Peace….you Gentle Soul…as you suffered and died…
your thoughts and love were only for the mother you never knew but you
knew she gave you life. Anthony, I pray that soon your mother Philomena
will take your body out of that Albatross that made you pay
for your own grave…..and lay you somewhere in peace and in love
because there is no love in Sean Ross Abbey…

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