Our aim is to let the public know, by providing them with a pleasant recreation, that the monks and nuns were not always busy in their retreats with the exercises of piety which they usually engaged in routine and which were not worth an obole that the truly pious man gives to the poor. These false devotees were often so far removed from the purity prescribed by canonical laws, that secular laymen least interested in being regarded as scrupulous would sometimes blush for having indulged in the excesses of libertinism in which a large number of shameless monks and mad virgins wallowed.
