It’s called Matins. It’s the first prayer service of the day in convents. It’s the one at the beginning of The Innocents” where the Benedictine nuns in a Polish convent at the cessation of World War II sing their first Gregorian chant. As they do, we in the audience hear a bloodcurdling obbligato to that celestially serene music – the…The post 'The Innocents' is a harrowing tale of rape in a convent during wartime appeared first on Gusto.
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