“The nun, who had observed me heedfully, asked me, in an obliging tone, why I was so much afflicted.”

“Pope John Paul II is kissed by an unidentified nun during a weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday.”

“Gertrude of Helfta was a nun at the convent of Helfta, a centre of Benedictine learning and piety, from the age of 26 until her death.”

“She entered the nunhood after her husband's death and became a well-respected tutor of high-ranking noblemen and noblewomen.”

“It was as if Garbo had shorn her hair and entered a nunnery.”

“Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.”

“Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions.”

“The nun, who had observed me heedfully, asked me, in an obliging tone, why I was so much afflicted.”

“Pope John Paul II is kissed by an unidentified nun during a weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday.”

“Gertrude of Helfta was a nun at the convent of Helfta, a centre of Benedictine learning and piety, from the age of 26 until her death.”

“By 1275 there were ten surviving Anglo-Saxon nunneries in England and Wales, together with 118 founded after the conquest.”

“In independent Tibet, monasteries and nunneries, numbering over 6,000, served as schools and universities, fulfilling Tibet's educational needs.”

“These monks and nuns live in their monasteries or nunneries all the rest of their lives, with no contact with the outside world.”

“While they waited for the disease to burn itself out, they entertained each other with racy stories about wicked priests and randy nuns.”

“Two nuns live in the monastery nowadays, who, always willingly and kind-heartedly, open the heavy door to visitors and offer them cool water.”

“The Benedictines and Franciscans were also represented by both priests and nuns.”