A few days later, Lucrecia was informed that two nuns from Roxanna´s covent had been caught naked in the same bed. When questioned, they said that they went to bed because they were very cold and just wanted to keep warm, but no one believed them and they were sentenced to die at the stake as lesbians.
Actually it was the death they deserved according to the law, but the Duchess added a humiliating episode that was that one carried the other to the gallows mounted on a wooden horse on wheels.
The two nuns had to go through the streets completely naked among the mockery of the people.
The Duchess herself went to see the execution up close, and just as they were about to light the pyre, a huge downpour of water fell. As the wood was wet, it took a long time to burn and the two nuns took more than two hours to die in horrible suffering.
During their interrogation, the two lesbian nuns did not accuse either of their sisters of any crime, but insinuated that young novices like Roxana behaved "too liberally."
Lucrecia had the trial clerk "rewrite" the defendants' trial statement at that point
- But milady I can´t, I....
- Silence, do as I tell you or I will tell the judge to dispense with your services as a bad secretary
- Yes Madam
So Lucrecia showed the bishop that new statement. According to the new version of the records, the two lesbian nuns, before being burned at the stake, had declared that most of the novices had lesbian relationships with each other.
The bishop asked the help of several priests and monks to read the document, and all agreed that the statement was reliable because the secretary had made a good forgery.
- My God, said the Bishop, what depravity!, but names are not mentioned here. How will I know which of the novices are lesbians?
- Arrest all of them answered the Duchess, and Goliath and his executioners will help us find out the truth, do you agree Fray Juan?
- Yes, absolutely, Duchess.
The young novices were brought to the presence of the bishop and the clerics without suspecting anything.
- Sisters, some of you have been accused of having lesbian relationships with each other.
Hearing that, the novices looked at each other in disbelief.
- We believe that only some of you are guilty, but to determine your guilt or innocence you must be examined by the venerable clerics. So you must undress and each of you will be examined by a clergyman in his private chambers.
Hearing those words, the novices protested. they would never undress in front of men.
- You decide, those who do not agree to undress and be examined by the clerics will be handed over to the Duchess's executioners who will interrogate them with harsher and less paternal methods.
This threat ended up deciding the novices who agreed to undress in front of the clerics,
However, despite their submissive behavior, the inquisitor Fray Juan insisted that the novices be chained or had their arms tied behind their backs.
Already stripped naked, and handcuffed, each cleric took a novice to his bedroom to properly "examine" her.