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Nun Aline Pereira Ghammachi
A Brazilian nun was removed from the position of Mother-Badessa of Monastery San Giacomo di Veglia, in Italy, after anonymous allegations of abuse and diversion of funds from the abbey. The religious rejects the accusations and says it was removed “because it is Brazilian and too beautiful.”
A few days after the nun Aline Pereira Ghammachi He was fired from the position of Mother-Abadassa of the Monastery San Giacomo di Voglia, in Italy, following anonymous denunciations of bad practices.
Born in Amapá, Brazil, and graduated in business management, Sister Aline has been translator of documents, event interpreter, and dedicated her life to the church.
According to local press, Aline had an impact on the Catholic Church for becoming, in 2018, younger conductor of an Italian convent. The nun’s mother is from Macapá, in Brazil, where parents are owned by a newspaper.
Aline would be removed from office on April 21, following the investigation to a Anonymous letter accused of mother-abadesa of “maus-traatesabuse of power, manipulation and deviation of resources“.
A Mother-Abadessa denies all accusations, And it states that their age, appearance and Brazilian origin were behind their departure.
According to, the financial issue was easy to resolve, because a first audit by the Diocese to the Monastery in 2023 did not find any evidence of misconduct or harmful management by Mother-Abadessa.
The process was initially filed, but reopened a few weeks later. In 2024, the Vatican ordered a second audit to the monastery.
Aline believes that the request for reopening of the process will have departed from Friar Mauro Giuseppe Leporia, Abbot chief of the order that directs the monastery, with whom the nun worked for years.
“He said that I was too beautiful to be abbessedor even to be a nun. I said that in a joke, laughing, but I exposed myself to ridicule, ”says Mother-Abadessa to.
“Friar Mauro Lepori said that if I went to the Vatican, no one would believe me, because I’m a woman, Brazilian, I’m beautiful and no one believes In this type of person. And that hurt me a lot, ”admits Aline.
The Brazilian ended up losing his position, and a new Abassa, 81, took over the direction of the monastery On the day of the death of Pope Francison April 21.
On the 28th of last month, Aline left the monastery -Together with 11 of the 22 nuns who lived at the scene, who decided to abandon him in solidarity with the Brazilian nun. “Those who stayed are the 85 -year -old sisters, 88 years old“.
“The apostolic audit did no investigation to the accusations, it did absolutely nothing, just had a conversation. And came to the conclusion that I was an unbalanced person and the sisters were afraid of me“Note Aline.
One of the nuns that left the monastery manifested itself publicly in defense of the former Brazilian abassa. “A medieval environmenta climate of slander and unfounded accusations against Sister Aline who, in turn, is a person very serious and scrupulous and that in recent years has become the point of reference for the community, ”says the nun Maria Paola Dal Zotto.
Now Aline wants justice. He even went to the Vatican during the Conclave Week to try to resort. “I had no right to defend. I was expelled from the monastery for no reason. We are appealing to the Supreme Court of Apostolic Signature, ”he says.
“Why did it happen? Why do I I’m a woman, because I’m young And because, especially in this context, I am Brazilian, ”says the nun.
Aline now deposits all hopes at the new Pope Leo XIV. “He fights for human rights, and It is a canonist pope, that isgraduated in canon law. So you will understand the law. This already says a lot. Just looking for justice“.
The Vatican has not yet spoken about the case – which will now be in the hands of the new Pope Leo XIV.
