Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon

Keywords: History of Church, History of sexuality, History of women, Inquisition, Sexual sollicitatio in confession.

Sexual sollicitatio in confession is a great sin, where the priest –usually a monk, and often Franciscan– does sexual actions, words or propositions to the penitent, man or woman. It’s serious because supposes an sacrilegious use of the sacrament of penitence, and is so assimilated to heresy, and is then competency of Inquisition, who will use this power like a control instrument over priests, secular and monasterial. In this communication we will see a late case, that of Capuchin monk fr. Pere Bolulla, who acts in Xàtiva, Benidorm and Callosa d’en Sarrià.