Diessbach a Milano (1785)

In June 1785 the French nun Marie Eugénie de Bayanne, who was a French teacher in the school of the Visitation nunnery of Saint Sofia in Milan, asked for Nickolaus Diessbach, ex-Jesuit and founder of "Amicizie cristiane", as spiritual director. Archbishop Filippo Visconti refused and turned to the Government to receive some help against that instance. This affair shows the growing fear that around Diessbach it existed a web of different high level relationships, hidden and potentially "dangerous". The final and more conciliatory attitude of Emperor Joseph II is due to the importance of the nun's role. This event, ignored by the bibliography about Diessbach, adds a new element to the wide political and religious context of Milan at the and of XVIII century