A true story From a stern Irish and English upbringing, nine year
old John was placed in a Roman Catholic Boarding School in England
in the early years of the Second World War. The heavy discipline
meted out by the Catholic Teaching Order of Priests, who ran St
Michael's College and the viciousness practiced by the older boys
was almost unbearable. He was soon befriended by one of the
priests, his Form's English Master. He did not realize that the
attention he was receiving, was due to the priest's physical
attraction towards him, but was pleased to have the attention of a
sensitive father figure, as his own father had died before the war.
When invited to stay during a summer school holiday at the Order's
Novitiate College housed in a rambling Elizabethan country mansion,
the relationship came to a climax when the sexual advances by the
priest increased and became intolerable. The boy's mindset now
believed that he was committing a series of mortal sins and was
scared that he'd be damned to Hell for eternity. He felt a strong
urge to go to Confession, but whom could he trust? With a stoicism
developed during those early days at St Michael's, he was
determined to stop the sexual part of their relationship and
eventually taught the priest a lesson he would never forget.
Concerning the title The Penance Walk was an exposed paved rose
garden in front of the school, where boys were sent in all weathers
to memorize a lesson they had failed to do correctly, until it was
recited word perfect.
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