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  • Thumbnail for Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado
    without signs of fatigue. Drawn to religious life, she declared her intention to enter a convent as a lay sister, a decision which her aunt and uncle...
    12 KB (1,463 words) - 10:40, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faustina Kowalska
    went to the Łódź Cathedral, where, as she later said, Jesus instructed her to depart for Warsaw immediately and to enter a convent. She took a train...
    34 KB (4,318 words) - 01:01, 21 May 2024
  • and his mistress. In the fourth story, a young man is infatuated with a girl who is about to enter a convent. This was the final feature-length film...
    18 KB (2,390 words) - 17:59, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mother superior
    The head of a religious institute, who is in charge of the convent, is sometimes referred to as Mother superior. She could be the head of a monastic community...
    3 KB (350 words) - 09:03, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rita of Cascia
    parents arranged her marriage, a common practice at the time, despite her repeated requests to be allowed to enter a convent of religious sisters. Her husband...
    20 KB (2,245 words) - 05:40, 27 May 2024
  • them, Satan has also entered the convent and is turning the nuns into horny sinners. Finally, an exorcist is sent to the convent to drive out Satan and...
    8 KB (784 words) - 20:10, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maria Monk
    supposedly entered the convent through a secret tunnel. If the sexual union produced a baby, it was baptized and then strangled and dumped into a lime pit...
    14 KB (1,787 words) - 12:59, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carmo Convent
    The Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Portuguese: Convento da Ordem do Carmo) is a former Catholic convent located in the civil parish of Santa Maria...
    13 KB (1,458 words) - 06:10, 1 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Louise of France
    invention of luxury, had a lively imagination and great leaning to coquetry." Many years later, when Louise had left court to enter a convent without informing...
    43 KB (5,492 words) - 08:49, 17 May 2024
  • The Nun's Story (film) (category Films set in convents)
    Sister Luke (Hepburn), a young woman who decides to enter a convent and make the many sacrifices required by her choice. The film is a relatively faithful...
    30 KB (3,057 words) - 22:26, 27 May 2024
  • Madrid, 1623. A woman is found murdered in front of a church. Later, Quevedo seeks help from Alatriste to rescue a girl forced to enter a convent; meanwhile...
    13 KB (1,759 words) - 09:07, 23 May 2024
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    Peter the Great (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and Ivan V continuing to act as co-tsars. Peter forced Sophia to enter a convent, where she gave up her name and her position as a member of the royal family...
    103 KB (11,445 words) - 01:11, 10 June 2024
  • unmarried daughter Eunice, a devout Catholic, is reluctant to be burdened with the Tillerman children. She had plans to enter a convent and taking in the homeless...
    21 KB (3,358 words) - 20:26, 31 December 2023
  • [d]uring the thirties ... made a mariage blanc with the niece of Demel's Jewish owners, which allowed her to enter a convent under his name and survive the...
    5 KB (644 words) - 05:03, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Princesse de Clèves
    duke pursues her more openly, but she rejects him, choosing instead to enter a convent for part of each year. Mademoiselle de Chartres/Madame de Clèves –...
    12 KB (1,530 words) - 23:30, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Camille de Soyécourt
    gates of the convent, moved her to a Benedictine convent that had already accepted his mother. She left this convent and after some time entered the Benedictine...
    32 KB (4,550 words) - 15:06, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
    culture and the piano, followed by dramatics. At one point, she decided to enter a convent, then changed her mind and became an actress. She began acting in...
    22 KB (2,388 words) - 22:18, 20 March 2024
  • of the village intervened, saving her. She would subsequently enter a convent and die a few years later. The legend is one of many examples in French...
    2 KB (264 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christine and Léa Papin
    employed. Clémence and Gustave divorced in 1913. In 1918, Émilia decided to enter a convent, effectively ending her relations with her family. As far as can be...
    17 KB (2,370 words) - 15:16, 22 May 2024
  • in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and decided at a young age to enter a convent. She began her novitiate in Nonnberg Abbey on October 15, 1890...
    4 KB (403 words) - 10:34, 14 May 2024
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