Nuns claim they were forced to brand themselves with fire, eat out-of-date food and write orders of obedience in their own blood in Mafia-style initiations at Italian convent

Nuns claim they were forced to brand themselves with fire, eat out-of-date food and write orders of obedience in their own blood in Mafia-style initiations at Italian convent The woman has claimed that nuns of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, which has its headquarters in Frigento, Avellino province, southern Italy, took part in the rituals in the 1990s.