Sisters of Charity, e.g.

Usage examples of nuns.

It would not do, he reflected, to betray to conventionally-minded policemen his tenuous private hope that they would stumble upon one or two of those elusive nuns, profanely transformed.

One hundred sixty churches were burned to the ground, and nuns were removed forcibly from convents, "as though," wrote Due de Saint-Simon of an earlier conflict between the Spanish government and the Church, "they were whores in a bawdy house.

There were forty nuns at the convent, praying in the church, and living in the cloister.

Fiercely protective of her nuns, she felt more pain when it was necessary to enforce discipline than did the one being punished.

The nuns slept fully dressed on pallets of straw, covered with rough woolen sheets.

Carelessly, she made up her bed and stepped out into the long hall, where the nuns were lining up, eyes downcast.

The nuns prayed silently, but Sister Lucia's thoughts were on more important things than God.

The nuns stared back, wide-eyed, at the strange clothing the pair wore.

In the fourth century the pope decreed that girls could be permitted to become nuns at the age of twelve.

But if these men were the police, they would have known who the nuns were.

There was a relentless strength about him, an unshakable faith in his beliefs that reminded Megan of the nuns in the convent.

Because Megan and the other nuns were also being pursued, she felt a strong rapport with her new companions.

From the garden one of the nuns brought fresh flowers woven into a crown.

She would not be left alone before God, and in their stalls by her side, two nuns stayed through the rest of the day and night praying, while the Paschal candle flickered at her side.

As the last service they performed for their sister, two nuns started to drop soil softly onto her still body before they all returned to the church to say the psalms of penance.