Fidel Castro

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Statesman

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Cuban Novelist

Leonora Carrington

I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.

British Artist

Bharati Mukherjee

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Indian Writer

Kathy Burke

Because I didn't have a Mum - she died when I was a baby - my Dad was told by people in authority that it was best for me to go to a convent school.

English Actress

Lars von Trier

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

Danish Director

Princess Michael of Kent

I'm a workaholic. I'm a Capricorn, It's my nature, And I'm convent educated: I sew better than any nanny we've ever had.

Maria Monk

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

Canadian Celebrity

Charo

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

American Actress

Beatrice Wood

American Artist

Convent is associated with Christianity and used when referencing Catholic traditions.

Religious Setting

Convents involve communal living, where nuns share chores and prayer times.

Community Life

Convents are seen as private places that isolate from the secular world for spiritual reasons.

Privacy and Isolation

Convent can refer to a school with a strong religious foundation and moral teachings.

Educational Institution

In a convent school, nuns may teach classes or administer the school's operations.

Nun's Involvement

Traditionally, convent schools were primarily for girls, but this has changed over time.

Female Education

 and they have a shared history with the achoque. And it is so mind-bogglingly wonderful that it drew me all the way there to make an audio documentary about them, and I even have the unflattering selfie to prove it. There is a room at the center of their convent, though, that looks like this. It's very strange.

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 hyenas then they'll have a much easier time of it but generally in those places their biggest problem then becomes loss of habitat and and human interference where their Cubs will then get killed so you know just depends on on the area convents in this particular section between one and three Cubs out of every

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 Their billboards are manuals, prayers to the well-being of all sentient creatures. And with the blessing of Trulshik Rinpoche, we began a pilgrimage to a curious destination, accompanied by a great doctor. And the destination was a single room in a nunnery, where a woman had gone into lifelong retreat

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 help prevent the separation of children from their families. Housing 550 babies, this was Ceausescu's show orphanage, and so I'd been told the conditions were much better. Having worked with lots of young children, I expected the institution to be a riot of noise, but it was as silent as a convent.

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 in addition to religious music and poetry. She accrued a massive library, and was visited by many prominent scholars. While serving as the convent’s treasurer and archivist, she also protected the livelihoods of her niece and sisters from men who tried to exploit them.

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 you know for the most part most of them you know will hit the streets again we need to give them the ability to rehabilitate themselves prisons across America are working to provide a variety of programs to help rehabilitate convents re-entry programs job training

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 Bigger children escaped through the courthouse and church, which straddled the ghetto’s boundaries. Sendler helped ferry these children to safe houses, before forging them new documents and sending them to orphanages, convents, and foster families across Poland.

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 She was chewing betel nut, which caused her teeth over the years to turn very red. Finally, this is a 26-year-old nun I spoke to. Her wish was to make a pilgrimage to Tibet. I asked her how long she planned to live in the nunnery and she said,

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 I did, Peter, and I left him a note about it in our special place there, and I never did hear from him again. No, I gave it up for adoption so it could have a decent life, and then they wouldn't let me back into the convent.

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 fair what means your lordship I do love you once indeed my lord you made me believe believe me I loved you not I was the more to see ya they to a nunnery why was that be a breeder of sinners will help him you sweet heaven