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Dolores Hart Dolores Hart, O.S.B., (born October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun who had previously been a prominent actress. She made ten films in five years, playing opposite Stephen Boyd, Montgomery Clift, George Hamilton and Robert Wagner, having made her movie debut with Elvis Presley in "Loving You" (1957). By the early 1960s an established leading lady, she "stunned Hollywood" by announcing that she would forgo her life as an actress, leaving behind her career to enter the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Connecticut, where she serves her monastic community. Born Dolores Hicks, she was
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Dolores Hart Dolores Hart, O.S.B., (born October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun who had previously been a prominent actress. She made ten films in five years, playing opposite Stephen Boyd, Montgomery Clift, George Hamilton and Robert Wagner, having made her movie debut with Elvis Presley in "Loving You" (1957). By the early 1960s an established leading lady, she "stunned Hollywood" by announcing that she would forgo her life as an actress, leaving behind her career to enter the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Connecticut, where she serves her monastic community. Born Dolores Hicks, she was
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Francis of Assisi (film) Francis of Assisi is a 1961 DeLuxe CinemaScope film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the novel "The Joyful Beggar" by Louis de Wohl. It was shot entirely in Italy. The film was a box office loss. It starred Bradford Dillman in one of his few sympathetic leading film roles (he usually played a villainous character onscreen). Two years after the release of "Francis of Assisi", Dolores Hart, the 24-year-old actress who plays St. Clare in the film, became a Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Francis Bernardone (Bradford
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saw a less calculating version of Eve, more concerned about the fact that her son Cole might be in love with his own sister, Victoria. In between, she appeared briefly on "General Hospital" as a relationship consultant who was really a secret madame. Mason was a devout Catholic, and once considered becoming a nun. In 1968, she had double pneumonia, cancer surgery, a heart attack and heart surgery. According to the actress, surviving these setbacks changed her personality, from being a "panicky, fussing" woman who became "excited about nothing and being upset about small things" to one who was "unhurried,
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"Les Contemporains" fell into oblivion. Victor Hugo noted that Mirecourt possessed "a beautiful talent and a beautiful courage" with an "excellent and solid" style. In 1946, Theodore de Banville dedicated a poem to him, "le Mirecourt". At the end of his life, he entered the Dominicans of Ploërmel, became a priest, and was sent to teach in Tahiti, where he died at the age of 67. He had a son and two daughters, one of whom became a nun, the other an actress under the name of Hélène Therval, who died at the age of 32. Mirecourts work, of 80
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Ven. Gyalten Samten. She later commented that it was the most important and right decision she ever made in her life. Barkha Madan Barkha Madan (Hindi:बरख़ा मदान) (born 1974) is a former Indian model, film actress and film producer who has also appeared in television serials and hosted some TV shows. Impressed by Buddhist ideologies, in November 2012 she had her ordination to become a Buddhist nun and changed her name to Ven. Gyalten Samten. Born on 1974 in an army family from Punjab, Barkha Madan holds an honors in English Literature. She became a finalist in Miss India contest
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Laura Donnelly (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) Laura Donnelly Elliott is a fictional character in the American soap opera "Love is a Many Splendored Thing". She was played by actress Donna Mills, who is closely identified in the role; Laura was also played by Barbara Stanger and Veleka Gray later on. Laura, the daughter of widowed pathologist Dr. Will Donnelly, was studying to be a nun. She was a novitiate, Sister Cecilia, but before she was to take her final vows she discovered that the cloistered and sheltered life of a nun was not what she wanted. She left
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The Nun (2013 film) The Nun () is a 2013 French drama film directed by Guillaume Nicloux. It is based on the 18th-century novel "La Religieuse" by French writer Denis Diderot. The film premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. It received two nominations at the 4th Magritte Awards, winning Best Actress for Pauline Étienne, and a nomination at the 39th César Awards. The young Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to become a nun. She learns that as an illegitimate child, she is supposed to atone for her mother’s sin. Her abbess treats her nicely
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shows ranked higher in the ratings than "The Flying Nun," which eventually led to its cancellation. During its two-year run, the series was a part of a three-show comedy block on ABC that also consisted of "Bewitched" and "That Girl." Despite its early popularity, the show's ratings never broke the Nielsen top thirty. Beginning in the summer of 2011, the show was transmitted on weekends on Antenna TV. The complete first season also became available on iTunes. Despite the show being unpopular with critics, Marge Redmond was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in
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growing ever since and in the 1980s, she became one of the most beloved actresses in France. Her filmography includes many successful films: "Papy fait de la résistance", "La boum", "Trois hommes et un couffin", "Les bronzés font du ski", "Inspecteur la Bavure" (alongside Gérard Depardieu). In 1988, she was awarded Best supporting actress for her role in "Agent trouble" (with Catherine Deneuve). She also starred in the long-lasting French TV series "Sœur Thérèse.com" (2002-2011) playing a former policer who became a nun but is still a committed detective. Dominique Lavanant Dominique Lavanant (born 24 May 1944) is a César
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The Nun of Monza Sister Virginia Maria (born Marianna de Leyva y Marino, Milan, December 4, 1575 – January 17, 1650) was an Italian nun who became involved in a scandal which took place in Monza, in northern Italy, at the beginning of the 17th century. It was revealed that she had given birth to two children fathered by a local aristocrat, and had connived in the murder of another nun to cover up the affair. Following this scandal she became widely known as "The Nun of Monza". Her life inspired one of the characters in Alessandro Manzoni's novel "The
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Verhoeven's "Black Book" (2006), replaced Carrière to adapt the non-fiction book "Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy" which was published in 1986 and written by historian Judith C. Brown. Belgium actress Virginie Efira, who played a supporting part as a devout Catholic in "Elle", was cast in the leading role of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century nun who suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. On March 25, 2018, Saïd Ben Saïd announced that Verhoeven had co-written the final draft with David Birke, who previously wrote "Elle". Verhoeven then clarified his intentions : On April 3,
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that time a crime in Sweden, her property was confiscated and given to her siblings, who sold it. She died in Paris. Brita Sophia De la Gardie Brita Sophia De la Gardie (22 April 1713 – 1797) was a Swedish noble and amateur actress who later converted to Catholicism and became a nun. She was a central member of the cultural life in Stockholm in her time. She played a part in the history of Swedish theatre. She was the maternal aunt of Count Axel von Fersen the Younger. Brita Sophia De La Gardie was born to the politician Count
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and becoming a nun. After leaving "Days" in 1973, she moved to New York, and by 1974 was on soap opera "Search for Tomorrow", where she originated the role of the sarcastic and very vampy Stephanie Wilkins, who was Joanne Gardner's arch-enemy, having an affair with Jo's husband Martin (John Aniston). She was replaced on that soap opera in early 1984 by Emmy Winning actress/writer Louise Shaffer. In 1987, she became a regular cast member of "General Hospital", where she played Lucy Coe's wacky and fun-loving Aunt Charlene Simpson who eventually had a major storyline surrounding her two sons. When
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fostermother, his mother's sister Mahapajapati, who also had two children of her own. She became the first Buddhist nun. Both of her children, her son Nanda and her daughter Sundari Nanda joined the Buddhist sangha of monastics. The wife of Gautama Buddha, Yasodhara, was the mother of one son named Rahula, meaning "fetter", who became a Buddhist monk at the age of seven and Yasodhara also eventually became a nun. One of the attractions for women in Vajrayana Buddhism of following the path of a yogini rather than that of a bhikkhuni nun was the opportunity to practice amidst family
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the officer investigating Norman's disappearance, who have conclusively identified the charred remains as Norman's. It turns out the hitchhiker killed Norman in self-defense and, worried about going to jail, burned the van to hide the evidence. However, the hitchhiker, believing Norman was really a nun, was driven by his conscience to turn himself in. Ames concludes that if Norman is dead, and contacts the police to tell them Vizzini is the murderer. Meanwhile, the actress manages to fight off Vizzini, who is stabbed by an assailant. When the assailant approaches the actress with the knife, the cops show up and
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foremost amongst bhikkunis who practiced Jhana. This meant that she not only followed the analytical way of insight, but emphasised the experience of tranquillity. Enjoying this pure well-being, she no longer needed any sensual enjoyments and soon found inner peace, despite having become a member of the sangha out of attachment to her relatives. Nanda (Buddhist nun) Sundarī Nandā, also known simply a Sundarī, was the half-sister of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became Gautama Buddha. She became a nun after the enlightenment of her half-brother and became the foremost bhikkhuni in the practise of jhana (total meditative absorption). She lived
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Sister Vauzou was portrayed by English actress Gladys Cooper in the 1943 film "The Song of Bernadette" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Vauzou. In the 1946 Broadway play of the same name, Sister Vauzou was portrayed by actress Jean Mann. Marie Therese Vauzou Marie-Thérèse Vauzou (August 10, 1825 – November 3, 1907) was a French Catholic nun who is known as being the Mistress of Novices and later Mother Superior at the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, during the time that Bernadette Soubirous was alive. She was born in Collonges-la-Rouge,
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Bríd Ní Neachtain Bríd Ní Neachtain is an Irish actress. Ní Neachtain is a native of Connemara but now lives in Dublin. She is an actress, whose credits include "Dancing at Lughnasa". A former board member of Irish language broadcaster, TG4, she is of 2009 completing a Celtic Studies degree. She starred in an adaptation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's 1948 novel, "Cré na Cille". Ní Neachtain was educated at Coláiste Chroí Mhuire, Spiddal. A nun at the school, Sr Regina de Burca, who was interested in drama, first sparked her interest in acting. In her late teens, hearing that an
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Shelley Morrison Shelley Morrison (born Rachel Mitrani; October 26, 1936) is an American actress. Early in her career, she was sometimes credited as Rachel Domínguez. Morrison has been a theater and television actress since the early 1960s, predominantly as a character actress in ethnic roles. Her most recognizable role has been as the maid Rosario Salazar in the NBC comedy television series "Will & Grace", which she played from 1999 to 2006. She was a regular performer on the sitcom "The Flying Nun" playing Sister Sixto, a nun known mostly for mangling the English language; and she continued in television
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of John VI Kantakouzenos (r. 1341–1354), Theodora Palaiologina Angelina. She most likely lived with her mother who was a nun at that time and after her death, Theodora herself became a nun under the monastic name Theodosia. It is known that she had children by Michael Shishman and likely by Theodore Svetoslav, but their names and number is unknown. Theodora Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria Thodora Palaiologina (, , ) was a Byzantine princess who became a Bulgarian empress as wife of the emperors Theodore Svetoslav from 1308 to his death in 1321, and Michael Shishman from 1324 to his fall
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Barkha Madan Barkha Madan (Hindi:बरख़ा मदान) (born 1974) is a former Indian model, film actress and film producer who has also appeared in television serials and hosted some TV shows. Impressed by Buddhist ideologies, in November 2012 she had her ordination to become a Buddhist nun and changed her name to Ven. Gyalten Samten. Born on 1974 in an army family from Punjab, Barkha Madan holds an honors in English Literature. She became a finalist in Miss India contest 1994 with Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen and Swetha Menon, and was a runner-up at the Miss Tourism International at Kuala Lampur,
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was published. In 2005 she was an Asialink resident in Sri Lanka, which provided research material for her novel "Bird", which follows the life of a singer-actress who became a Buddhist nun. Her non-fiction book "Melbourne" was published in 2011. Part memoir, part history, it is a portrait of the city as experienced through her own memories over the course of a year. In 2012 it was longlisted for the National Biography Award. As of April 2012 she is working on her third novel, "This Devastating Fever", about Leonard Woolf's time as a colonial administrator in Ceylon, and a non-fiction
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and Brooks Atkinson of "The New York Times" said: "She gives an indomitable performance, both as actress and singer." Despite the acclaim, Merman lost the Tony Award to her close friend Mary Martin in "The Sound of Music" and jokingly quipped, "How are you going to buck a nun?" Shortly after she divorced Robert Six, his affair with television actress Audrey Meadows became public, and she found solace in her work. Throughout the 702-performance run of "Gypsy," Mervyn LeRoy saw it numerous times, and repeatedly assured Merman that he planned to cast her in the film adaptation he was preparing.
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the "nun" half came to the fore, and she was living in relative obscurity as a member of the Order of St Francis in Los Angeles, California when she died in September 1974 at the age of 99. Minnie Tittell Brune was born Minnie Tittle in 1875 in San Francisco, where her mother Minna Esther St Marie kept a lodging house. She had two elder sisters: Esther, also an actress who became a "crack shot and expert stage swordswoman" and performed in at least one silent film before her death in 1934; and Charlotte, who married a theatrical manager. She
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lead performance". "Variety"'s Boyd van Hoeij certified the film was "slickly assembled" and frequently provided a "painting-like" cinematography. "Cine Vue"'s Patrick Gamble judged "The Nun" suffered from an "inability to deviate from absurdity". The Nun (2013 film) The Nun () is a 2013 French drama film directed by Guillaume Nicloux. It is based on the 18th-century novel "La Religieuse" by French writer Denis Diderot. The film premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. It received two nominations at the 4th Magritte Awards, winning Best Actress for Pauline Étienne, and a nomination at the 39th César Awards. The
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Review described the book as "an appealing novella, both a realistic evocation of childhood and childishness, as well as a more mature work of charming strangeness." How I Became a Nun How I Became a Nun by César Aira is a novel set in Rosario, Argentina, about a precocious six-year-old named César Aira. César the character, who claims to be, alternately, a boy and a girl (but mainly a girl), has a hyper-developed sense of reality, a plethora of hang-ups, and a casual relationship with the truth. Contrary to what the name suggests, it is not a story of religious
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How I Became a Nun How I Became a Nun by César Aira is a novel set in Rosario, Argentina, about a precocious six-year-old named César Aira. César the character, who claims to be, alternately, a boy and a girl (but mainly a girl), has a hyper-developed sense of reality, a plethora of hang-ups, and a casual relationship with the truth. Contrary to what the name suggests, it is not a story of religious awakening, and begins and ends in the same year of the life of the narrator. The Spanish version was first published in 1993. Chris Andrews’ English
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fictional character on the ABC Daytime soap opera "One Life to Live". The role was played by actress Crystal Chappell from October 1995 through September 1997. The first cousin of Andrew Carpenter, Maggie, arrives in fictional Llanview in 1995. Maggie is introduced as a former wild child seeking a new start by becoming a nun, but she soon falls romantically in love with Max Holden instead. Part of her motivation for becoming a nun is to spite her Protestant minister father John, who constantly belittled her. After leaving the church and getting involved with Max, Maggie tries to open a
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Rourke. Musicians who toured and recorded with The Leather Nun: Leather Nun The Leather Nun (a.k.a. Lädernunnan) are a Swedish rock group. Careening from garage rock to goth and industrial, Leather Nun became cult heroes in their native land. In the early eighties they often shocked their audiences by showing adult movies and being accompanied by strippers when on stage. The Leather Nun (originally named "Lädernunnan") was formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1978 by radio DJ and fanzine editor Jonas Almquist (vocals) who, after getting agreement from Genesis P. Orridge to release a single on his Industrial Records label, recruited
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film became a hit in its video release, bringing Sasaki, then 31, late-comer stardom in the "pink" profession. In "Nōpan Amadera: Ureta Shigemi" (1998) Sasaki actually shaved her head for the role of a teacher who becomes a Buddhist nun. The main feature of the December 2000 issue of "P*G" magazine was an interview with Sasaki on the fourth anniversary of her "pink film" debut. Since 1994 "P*G" has been the leading journal on the "pink film", and is the host of the Pink Grand Prix, the major awards ceremony for the genre. Sasaki won the Best Actress award at
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Agnes of God (film) Agnes of God is a 1985 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, written by John Pielmeier, and based on his play of the same name, and starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly, about a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the dead child was the result of a virgin conception. A psychiatrist (Fonda) and the mother superior (Bancroft) of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. Despite generally mixed reviews from critics, the film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Bancroft), Best Actress in
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2016, for Best Actress (Céline Bonnier) and Best Original Score (François Dompierre). For the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards (formerly known as the Prix Jutra), "The Passion of Augustine" won 6, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress, Céline Bonnier. The Passion of Augustine The Passion of Augustine () is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Léa Pool and released in 2015. The film stars Céline Bonnier as Mother Augustine, a Roman Catholic nun who teaches music in a convent school in rural Quebec in the 1960s and who is fighting to preserve her school against the backdrop
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"Doubt" was preparing to open on the Broadway stage, she coached actress Heather Goldenhersh on how to play the role of a nun based on herself. Goldenhersh was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal. McEntee was hired to serve as technical advisor for the 2008 film version of "Doubt". She coached the production team as well as actress Amy Adams, who was portraying her, in how things worked within the Sisters of Charity, in particular at the time the story is set in the 1960s. Adams was nominated for the Academy
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nun. It was on 31 March 1717 that she took the veil officially; the ceremony was held in front of her parents. As a result of the scandalous life led by her older sister, the Dowager Duchess of Berry who was notoriously promiscuous and concealed several pregnancies, Louise Adélaïde decided to become a nun. Her parents, as well as her paternal grandmother, were opposed to it, but she became a nun anyway. As a nun, she took the name of "Sœur Sainte-Bathilde" ("Sister Saint Bathilde") in 1717. She held that name until the next year. While at Chelles, Louise Adélaïde
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Nanda (Buddhist nun) Sundarī Nandā, also known simply a Sundarī, was the half-sister of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became Gautama Buddha. She became a nun after the enlightenment of her half-brother and became the foremost bhikkhuni in the practise of jhana (total meditative absorption). She lived during the 6th century BCE in what is now Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India. When she was born, Princess Nandā was lovingly welcomed by her parents: Her father was King Śuddhodana, also the father of Siddhartha; her mother was Mahaprajapati. Mahaprajapati was the second wife of Suddhodarna and the younger sister of his
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on December 1, 2007, with playwright John Patrick Shanley directing and Scott Rudin producing. They all received Academy Award nominations for their roles. Streep for Academy Award for Best Actress, Hoffman for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Adams and Davis for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film is dedicated to Sister Margaret McEntee, a Sister of Charity nun who was Shanley's first-grade teacher and who served as a technical adviser for the movie, after whom Shanley modeled the character of Sister James. Doubt: A Parable Doubt, A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley. Originally
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comeback playing leading roles. The film instead became the "welcome-to-Hollywood coronation" for Jolie, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Jolie thanked Ryder in her acceptance speech. The same year, Ryder was parodied in "". The following year, she starred in the melodrama "Autumn in New York", alongside Richard Gere. The film revolves around a relationship between an older man (Gere) and a younger woman (Ryder). "Autumn in New York" received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success, grossing $90 million at the worldwide box office. Ryder then played a nun of a secret society
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in a soap opera. She insisted she did not analyze the acting of Mia Farrow, who originated the role of Allison, explaining she wanted to portray Allison in her own way. She played the role until 1973, and then asked to be released from her contract because she did not want to live in California any longer. Pamela Susan Shoop replaced her. From 1975 to October 1978, Glass portrayed missionary nun Jenny Wolek in the soap opera "One Life to Live". During this period, she became a popular actress and set the record for receiving the most teenage mail of
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is kidnapped by the wife of the ice-cream vendor who was killed by her father. The wife, in an act of vengeance, throws Cesar into a drum of Strawberry ice-cream, which seems to have become the girl's biggest horror. The story as told by young César captures a child's sense of wonder and naivete, and blurs the categories of what is imagined and what is real. When "How I Became a Nun" debuted outside Argentina, it was "celebrated...as one of the ten most important books published in Spain that year" and called "a true masterpiece for our times". The Complete
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Late Nite Catechism Late Nite Catechism (1993) is a solo comedy play about a fictitious Catholic nun, written by Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan. The show itself is a form of participatory theatre where the actress playing the nun is the only person on stage, and members of the audience become members of the nun's school class. Funds from the play help to support retired nuns in need. The authors discovered that when Social Security was implemented in the United States, the Catholic Church opted out for nuns. This has since changed and social security is in place. However, the
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through Donovan Entertainment, Inc. A monetary award was granted. Donovan further owes Quade a royalty payment based on revenues earned by Donovan’s Late Nite Catechism sequels. Late Nite Catechism Late Nite Catechism (1993) is a solo comedy play about a fictitious Catholic nun, written by Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan. The show itself is a form of participatory theatre where the actress playing the nun is the only person on stage, and members of the audience become members of the nun's school class. Funds from the play help to support retired nuns in need. The authors discovered that when Social
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hospitality. The male actors who played the monks and the only actress in the movie (Im Hyun-kyung), who played the nun Yeun-hwa, actually shaved their heads for the movie. Hi! Dharma! Hi! Dharma! (; literally "Hey Dharma Let's Play") is a 2001 South Korean comedy about gangsters who hide out in a monastery. With 3,746,000 admissions, it was the fifth highest-grossing Korean film of 2001. A sequel titled "" was released in 2004. Five gangsters escape in a van after a bloody confrontation with the rival Chunno gang. They realize that they have a snitch in their own gang and
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translation was published by New Directions in 2007. "How I Became A Nun" chronicles a year in the fantastic internal and external life of an introverted six-year-old called César, who sees herself as a girl but is referred to by the rest of the world as a boy. In the beginning of the novel, her family moves to a bigger town Rosario, where her father takes her for a promised Ice-cream. The child is horrified at the taste of the Strawberry ice-cream, which disappoints the father. He insists that she finish her ice-cream and stop being difficult. After tasting the
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that her Buddhist faith would help her parents find salvation. Xu Chong then took the issue to Fotudeng who said that allowing An to become a nun would bring the family honor and glory and guide them to salvation. An became a disciple of Fotudeng and Zhu Jingiang and founded the Jinshu Monastery. She is said to have converted over 200 people and built five monasteries and a retreat. The Emperor Shi Hu promoted her father to the governorship of Qinghe in Hebei Province in recognition of her merits. An Lingshou An Lingshou () was a Chinese Buddhist nun who
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María Gertrudis Hore María Gertrudis Hore (1742 - 1801) was a Spanish poet. She began as a socialite of Irish immigrant parents. In 1762 she married and then sixteen years after that she became a nun. In the convent she wrote poetry and became known as the "Daughter of the Sun" for her renown. Friendship among women is a theme in some of her works. She has also been described as self-referential and, despite being a nun, occasionally erotic in poetry. Additionally she has been of interest as a woman who produced Spanish Enlightenment literature, although some of her work
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Anna of East Anglia, who with all of his daughters became renowned for their Christian virtues. Later, Hereswith became a nun at Chelles Abbey in Gaul (modern France). Bede resumes Hilda's story at a point when she was about to join her widowed sister at Chelles Abbey. At the age of 33, Hilda decided instead to answer the call of Bishop Aidan of Lindisfarne and returned to Northumbria to live as a nun. Hilda's original convent is not known except that it was on the north bank of the River Wear. Here, with a few companions, she learned the traditions
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Brita Sophia De la Gardie Brita Sophia De la Gardie (22 April 1713 – 1797) was a Swedish noble and amateur actress who later converted to Catholicism and became a nun. She was a central member of the cultural life in Stockholm in her time. She played a part in the history of Swedish theatre. She was the maternal aunt of Count Axel von Fersen the Younger. Brita Sophia De La Gardie was born to the politician Count Magnus Julius De la Gardie and the political salonist Hedvig Catharina Lillie. She was the sister-in-law to the scientist Eva Ekeblad. During
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1963 episode entitled "The Mountain of the Sun". Hart's last role was with Hugh O'Brian in 1963's "Come Fly with Me". At this point she had made up her mind to leave the film industry. The 24-year-old actress became a Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. On a 1963 New York promotional stop for "Come Fly with Me", she took a one-way car ride to the abbey in 1963 (not in a limousine as reported). It was during the filming of "Come Fly With Me" that she became close friends with Karl Malden,
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Eyes of Dr. Orloff", "Night of the Killers", "Faceless", "Golden Temple Amazons", "Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun", "Dirty Game in Casablanca", and "A Captain of 15 Years". William Berger married several times. He had two daughters with his first wife: Carin Berger (born 1952) and actress Debra Berger (born March 17, 1957). He also had a son with his first wife, named Wendell Nelson Berger, who was born on December 28, 1972. By his second wife, singer and actress Hanja Kochansky, he had two more children: a daughter actress Katya Berger and a son child actor Kasimir Berger (born
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Bonnie Aarons Bonnie Aarons (born June 3, 1979 in Los Angeles) is an American actress and writer. She is best known for her roles as the bum in "Mulholland Drive" (2001), Baroness Joy von Troken in "The Princess Diaries" (2001) and its sequel, "" (2004), and the demon nun known as Valak in "The Conjuring 2" (2016) and its subsequent spinoff, "The Nun" (2018). She will appear in the 2018 movie "Adi Shankar's Gods and Secrets". Aarons attended acting school in New York City, but was frequently told that she would not have an acting career, due to her look
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Leather Nun The Leather Nun (a.k.a. Lädernunnan) are a Swedish rock group. Careening from garage rock to goth and industrial, Leather Nun became cult heroes in their native land. In the early eighties they often shocked their audiences by showing adult movies and being accompanied by strippers when on stage. The Leather Nun (originally named "Lädernunnan") was formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1978 by radio DJ and fanzine editor Jonas Almquist (vocals) who, after getting agreement from Genesis P. Orridge to release a single on his Industrial Records label, recruited Bengt "Aron" Aronsson (guitar), Freddie Wadling (bass), and Gert Claesson
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Elizabeth that, as her convent is full of repressed female desire, the Mother Superior too is enveloped within this voluptuous fold. Elizabeth details four fantasy vignettes. These are interspersed with conversations between the convent's former abbess, a priest, Abbess Elizabeth, an odd dead zombie nun and an actress Eileen Daly playing the spirit of Catechism.. The sex scenes conform to standard pornographic sequencing. They each start simply and culminate in erotic release at the end. There are scenes of the full lesbian sexual gamut, which extends from episodes of individual nuns' self-stimulation to non-monogamous lesbian sex to a final nun-centered
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Sarah Nicklin Sarah Nicklin is an American stage, film and television actress. Her career is strongly focused on independent films and she is known for her girl next door quality, strong emotional range, and ability to transform into dark damaged characters. Her first notable film role was as Sister Kelley Wrath in the independent cult-hit "Nun of That" in 2008. Since then she has won Best Actress for her role of Laura in Exhumed and Sarah in Victimized. She appeared in the film Escape The Dark, which won Best Ensemble Cast, and has also been nominated for Best Actress for
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the Season 4 2-part finale. Paul Birch appeared as Captain Carpenter, Gerard's superior at the Stafford, IN police department, in 13 episodes of seasons 1 & 2. Gerard's wife, Marie Gerard appeared in 3 stories, played by a different actress each time. In "Never Wave Goodbye, Part One" she was briefly played by Rachel Ames, in "Nemesis" she was briefly played by an uncredited actress who remained unidentified as of late March 2017, and in the 2-part story "Landscape with Running Figures", the only story in which hers is a major role, she is played by Barbara Rush. The nun
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In the hour-long series pilot, Chicago native Elsie Ethrington arrives in San Juan from New York City after her arrest for having been involved in a protest; she then adopts the name of Sister Bertrille. It is also later learned (in the episode "My Sister, The Sister") that Sister Bertrille comes from a family of physicians, and that she is the only member of that family who did not follow in their footsteps. She instead became a nun, joining the Convento San Tanco, after being impressed by the missionary work of her aunt, and broke up with her boyfriend of
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book of poetry before returning to Ireland in retirement. Their third daughter Máire (1928–1966) married a RAF officer. Oonagh (b. 1929) married Russian Prince Alexis Guedroitz and their daughter Princess Ania Guédroïtz is a Belgian actress. Oonagh later married Irish Painter Patrick Swift and after his death was married to the poet, David Wright. Their youngest son, Séamus (1930–2005) became Dom Vincent, a Benedictine Monk at Glenstal Abbey, Limerick. The youngest, Íde Ni Riain (1933-2018) became a nun at the Mount Anville Convent in Dublin and authored a number of religious and historical works including translations of Medieval Latin works
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small memorable roles: "Remembering Sister Ruth" (1997), about actress Kathleen Byron, who played the disturbed nun Sister Ruth in "Black Narcissus" (1947), and the 15 minute "Remembering Miss Torso" (2004), about actress Georgine Darcy, who played the voluptuous neighbor Miss Torso in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954). Venville initially turned down a number of offers to direct feature films, including "Coyote Ugly", because he wished his feature film debut to be a planned movie called "Deaf Road", about his uncle's attempts to lose his virginity in Tangiers. It would be entirely in sign language, which Orlando Bloom had pledged to
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brother Nanda, and her cousins Anuruddha and Ananda, who were two of the Buddha’s five leading disciples. Her mother, was the first Buddhist nun, having asked the Buddha to allow women into the sangha. As a result of this, many other royal Sakyan ladies, including Princess Yasodharā, the wife of Siddhartha became Buddhist monastics. Thereupon, Nanda also renounced the world, but it was recorded that she did not do it out of confidence in the Buddha and the dharma, but out of blood love for her relatives and a feeling of belonging. It soon became obvious that Nanda was not
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place in the administration of their own convents. This is exactly what happened to Marcela del Carpio. She was the illegitimate daughter of Lope de Vega and the actress Micaela de Luján. She adopted the name of Marcela de San Félix and lived in the convent of St. Ildefonse of the Discalced Trinitarians in Madrid since age sixteen until she was eighty-two years old. Marcela de San Félix Marcela de San Félix (1605–1687) was a nun who worked as a prelate, a teacher to novices, and housekeeper among several other jobs. However, Sor Marcela was also a poet, an actress
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plans to elope. Agnes plans to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunts the castle, when she escapes with Raymond. The two drive away in the night, but the carriage crashes, and when Raymond awakens, he finds the nun Agnes is gone. After several months healing, he learns that it was not Agnes, but the Bleeding Nun herself who was with him. Raymond learns that the Bleeding Nun is an ancestor and he is responsible for burying her bones and so release her from her hauntings. He finds Agnes in the convent and takes the disguise of the
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Beatrice of Ornacieux, also a Carthusian nun; and "Speculum" ("The Mirror"). Pope Benedict XVI discussed Marguerite's spirituality and quoted from her writings at the general audience of 3 November 2010. Marguerite d'Oingt Marguerite d'Oingt (probably 1240–11 February 1310) was a French Carthusian nun and celebrated mystic. She was also among the earliest identified women writers of France. Marguerite was born into the locally powerful family of the seigneurs of Oingt in Beaujolais, who became extinct in 1382 for want of male heirs. She joined the Carthusian Order as a nun, and in 1288 became the fourth prioress of Poletains Charterhouse,
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the nun to repeat the oath she took when she was ordained as a nun.”But the nun refused.Later the ISKCON men read out the oath.The oath said in effect that the nun is married to Jesus Christ.The ISKCON man said, “Your Lordship! Lord Krishna is alleged to have ‘married’ 16,000 women only. There are more than a million nuns who assert that they are married to Jesus Christ. Between the two, Krishna and Jesus Christ, who has a loose character? And what about the nuns?” Yoga is gaining popularity in Poland. International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres in Poland Yoga in
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Eufrasia Burlamacchi Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1482–1548) was an Italian nun who practiced the art of manuscript illumination. Eufrasia Burlamacchi was born in Lucca as a member of the wealthy Burlamacchi family. She became a Dominican nun there in 1502 at the convent of San Domenico in Lucca. Many other members of the Burlamacchi had also been affiliated with the Dominican order. She is known for the religious illuminated manuscripts she completed there. Burlamacchi died in Lucca in 1548. Manuscript illumination is the practice of decorating a text with ornate, often gilded, illustrations and symbols that act both as embellishment and as
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decision is difficult for her, emphasizing Manzoni's view of her as a weak tool of evil, unable to resist threats and temptations, but basically not cruel. Later in the novel, at the end of Chapter 37, Lucia learns of Gertrude's repentance, confession of guilt, and consequent sentence. The life of Sister Virginia Maria has been popularized in many films, most of which are examples of the Nunsploitation subgenre. The Nun of Monza Sister Virginia Maria (born Marianna de Leyva y Marino, Milan, December 4, 1575 – January 17, 1650) was an Italian nun who became involved in a scandal which
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emerged as a major commercial success. Kajol eventually became the first actress to be nominated for and win the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Following a leading role opposite Aditya Pancholi and Saif Ali Khan in Sanjay Gupta's box office flop, the reincarnation romance "Hameshaa", Kajol starred as an aspiring nun in Rajiv Menon's Tamil film – the romantic drama "Minsaara Kanavu" – opposite Arvind Swamy and Prabhu Deva. Kajol revealed that she found dancing alongside Prabhu Deva difficult and it "took me 20 retakes and 30 rehearsals" to get the steps right. Her performance met
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as The Nun of Monza). Later, she fell under the spell of a young man of no scruples, Egidio, associated with the worst baron of that time, the "Innominato" (the "Unnamed"). Egidio and Gertrude became lovers and when another nun discovered their relationship they killed her. Renzo arrives in famine-stricken Milan and goes to the monastery, but the friar he is seeking is absent and so he wanders further into the city. A bakery in the Corsia de' Servi, "El prestin di scansc" ("Bakery of the Crutches"), is destroyed by a mob, who then go to the house of the
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until about 1961. His eldest daughter, Laurie Lakso, worked with her dad for a few years, writing stories for Charlie's Angels, was successful with several different types of art, and eventually became a nun. The other daughter, Shauna L. Hagan, became an insurance professional with her own firm and then later became an attorney. In 1967, Ed married Diane Haggin, a model, which marriage lasted until about 1975. They had no children. In 1985, Lakso married writer-actress-producer Lee Travis. They had no children. She remained with him until his death. Lakso died from complications of Parkinson's disease on May 23,
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Sancho, the future King Sancho IV. There is documentary proof that mother and daughter were living in 1283 in Seville with the king who in his will mentioned his granddaughter Blanche and left her a substantial sum for her marriage. In 1295, she became a nun at the Convent of Las Huelgas, as evidenced by a letter dated 15 April 1295 detailing the reasons that led her to become a nun at the recommendation and instructions of her uncle King Sancho IV of Castile, even though at first she had been reluctant to enter the religious order. She brought to
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medical board that advises the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome approved the miracle in mid 1998. María López de Rivas Martínez Blessed María López de Rivas Martínez (18 August 1560 – 13 September 1640) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun who was a professed member of the Discalced Carmelites. She adopted the name of María of Jesus when she became a nun. She was beatified on 14 November 1976 and her cause for sainthood continues. A miracle needed for that is now under investigation. María López de Rivas Martinez was born in Spain on 18 August 1560
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but also two characters that have become part of her repertoire: Mimí Piquín, a tiny actress, and the tiny nun Sor Zita. With her in the cast were Benito Castro, in the role of her father, Judy Ponte and Erika Bleher as nuns, José Natera, Jorge Arvizu, Cesar Bono, Eduardo España and Maru Dueñas. Dueñas was both seen as La Güereja's teacher and heard as her chauffeur. After three seasons, the series underwent a major change in 2001. The program became "Güereja de mi vida," Castro was the only supporting cast member returning from the previous series, and the Mimí
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by her mother, the child was taken by a monastery where she became a nun. The monastery was taken down soon after she took her vows, and so she decided to return home to find the answer behind her mother's actions. Finding the deranged old woman her mother became, the nun offers her a piece of bread, that the old woman greedily devoured. But when the nun asks if she knew her, the old woman killed the nun out of madness for more of the bread, and crucified her daughter's body on an inverted cross. Finding his first "princess", Märchen
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in English, but also stated that he didn't see himself doing the show many years as it wasn't "[his] thing". While the 63-year-old actor has played many cops throughout his career, he differentiated this one by his softer side and his relationship with his daughter. Reno also provided his voice for the show's French dub, as he usually does. Canadian actress Jill Hennessy was named the second regular as shooting began, playing a nun who is a close friend of Reno's character, making it her fourth lead role in a TV show. Hennessy appreciated that the show had "aspects of
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As Kumārajīva grew up Jīvaka the two are said to have become more distant, with Jīvaka supposedly relocating to Kashmir. Kumārajīva became a noted Buddhist scholar and translator. Jīva (nun) Jīvaka (also referred to as Jiva) was a sister of a king of Kucha, and later a Buddhist nun. Jīvaka was a princess of Kucha (in Central Asia) in the early fourth century C.E. She was the sister of the King who introduced her to Kumārāyana, a noble Indian who renounced his fortune to become a Buddhist monk and thus stopped in Kucha on his journey. However, after meeting Jīvaka,
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Buddhamitra Buddhamitrā (born c. 60) was a Buddhist nun from India during the Kushan Empire. She is remembered because of dated inscriptions on images of bodhisattvas and the Buddha that she erected in three cities near the Ganges river. They mark her success in attracting money and patronage to the Sarvāstivāda, the sect of Buddhism to which she belonged. Buddhamitrā was born around 60 in Mathurā. Her parents were wealthy Buddhists. She entered into the sangha and became a Buddhist nun. Her teacher was a monk named Bala, who belonged to the Sarvāstivāda, an early school of Buddhism. Both teacher
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Baoxian Baoxian (, 401–477) was a Buddhist nun who was the first rector general of the assembly of nuns of Jiankang, capital of Liu Song China. She was the first woman to fill that office over multiple convents in Chinese history. Baoxian, whose secular surname was Chen and given name is unknown, was born in 401. Her family hailed from the Chen Commandery in the valley of the Huai River in modern Henan Province. She became a Buddhist nun in 1420 at Jian'an Convent in Jiankang and was known for her piety and observance of the monastic rules ("vinaya"). The
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A New England Nun "A New England Nun" is a short story by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman published in 1891. "A New England Nun" is the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman who has lived alone for many years. Louisa is set in her ways, she likes to keep her house meticulously clean, wear multiple aprons, and eat from her nicest china every day. She has an old dog named Caesar who she feels must be kept chained up because he bit a neighbor 14 years ago as a puppy. Louisa promised Joe Dagget 14 years ago that she would
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Isabella, who had a hand in her becoming a nun. She is also largely concerned about social demands of that century, specifically with Isabella's title. French Gentleman: Fellow slave who escaped with Henault, who was able to connect the dots to the mysterious murder so that Isabella was able to be condemned to be beheaded. Behn's style of in "The History of the Nun" is amatory fiction, her subject focusing on nuns, and how Behn is criticized as a 17th-century woman writer would be seen in today's modern world are all things that are important to understanding the history of
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Chen Xiaoxu Chen Xiaoxu (; October 29, 1965 – May 13, 2007), Buddhism Dharma name Miao Zhen () in the period of been a bhikkhuni, was a Chinese actress, famous for her role as Lin Daiyu in 1987 TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber". And since february 23, 2007, she became a bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun) in Baiguoxinglong Temple, Changchun (). She died of breast cancer on May 13, 2007. Chen Xiaoxu was born in Anshan, Liaoning in 1965. She became famous for her role as Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", a CCTV series in 1987. However,
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nuns became suspicious of the repeated noise of the stones thrown by the man. The senior sisters challenged the young nun, who confessed to her sins. Aelred then goes on to describe the fury of the nuns who seized and beat the young woman in punishment for her crime. They tore her veil from her head, and were prevented only by the senior sisters from burning, flaying, and branding the young nun. She was then chained by fetters on each leg, placed in a cell, and fed with only bread and water. She was saved from harsher punishments merely by
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episode of the British comedy sitcom "Extras", starring Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. She played a satirical version of herself in itan actress, who in an effort to win an Oscar, takes the role of a nun in a Holocaust film. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. Within three months of giving birth to her second child, Winslet returned to work on "Romance & Cigarettes", a musical romantic comedy directed by John Turturro, in which she played Tula, a promiscuous and foulmouthed woman. The part required her to sing and dance,
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Siobhan Hayes Siobhan Hayes (born 23 April 1975) is an actress, best known for playing Abi Harper in the BBC sitcom "My Family" and her character "Sandy", the office trainee in the BBC Radio series "Absolute Power". Hayes portrayed Abi Harper, as a dimwitted and clumsy student in the British sitcom "My Family", a role she held between 2002 and 2008, when the character became a nun, allowing a potential return. She has also made guest appearances in "Little Britain", "", "Agatha Christie's Marple", "Birds of a Feather", and "The Bill". Her early appearances included playing a pupil of Class
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verse and short stories to national magazines; in 1928 he served on the first board of directors of the Catholic Book Club. Both he and his Nashville socialite wife, Agnes (née Bevington), were devout Roman Catholics and each had a sister who was a nun. Their daughter, Mary, also became a nun and Mrs. Connolly had a nephew who was a priest. Connolly had a fan in fellow Bostonian Joseph P. Kennedy. Kennedy convinced Connolly to leave Boston to work at the Hollywood movie studio that Kennedy financed, Film Booking Office (FBO). He began his work at FBO as a
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film "", playing the role of the titular character's mother. Siobhan Hayes Siobhan Hayes (born 23 April 1975) is an actress, best known for playing Abi Harper in the BBC sitcom "My Family" and her character "Sandy", the office trainee in the BBC Radio series "Absolute Power". Hayes portrayed Abi Harper, as a dimwitted and clumsy student in the British sitcom "My Family", a role she held between 2002 and 2008, when the character became a nun, allowing a potential return. She has also made guest appearances in "Little Britain", "", "Agatha Christie's Marple", "Birds of a Feather", and "The
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Nita Naldi Nita Naldi (born Mary Nonna Dooley, November 13, 1894 – February 17, 1961) was an American stage performer and silent film actress. She was often cast in theatrical and screen productions as a “vamp” or "femme fatale", a persona first popularized by actress Theda Bara. Nita Naldi was born in New York City to working class Irish parents, Julia (née Cronin) and Patrick Dooley, in 1894. Known in her youth as Nonna, she was named in honor of her great aunt, Mary Nonna Dunphy, a nun who in 1879 had founded Academy of the Holy Angels in Fort
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holds that Sister Marie's head was never found, resulting in her spirit forever roaming the area in search of it. Today, "Headless Nun" tours are among the tourist attraction offerings at French Fort Cove. Headless Nun The Headless Nun is a ghost story associated with French Fort Cove in Nordin, now the City of Miramichi, New Brunswick. According to the tale that dates back to the mid 1700s, the Headless Nun was an 18th-century resident of the area named Sister Marie Inconnue (Inconnue being the French for 'unknown') who was subsequently beheaded. Details of the story vary: in one version,
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Ev'ry Mountain, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, is sung by the Mother Abbess to Maria, encouraging her to be strong and follow her heart. In the 1965 film "The Sound of Music", the Mother Abbess was portrayed by Peggy Wood, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Virgilia, Mother Abbess Virgilia Lütz (March 27, 1869 – June 8, 1949) was a German Catholic nun who is known for being the reigning Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey from 1921 until her death in 1949. She is known for her association with Maria von Trapp during
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María López de Rivas Martínez Blessed María López de Rivas Martínez (18 August 1560 – 13 September 1640) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun who was a professed member of the Discalced Carmelites. She adopted the name of María of Jesus when she became a nun. She was beatified on 14 November 1976 and her cause for sainthood continues. A miracle needed for that is now under investigation. María López de Rivas Martinez was born in Spain on 18 August 1560 into a life of wealth. Her father died when she was four and her paternal grandparents raised her after
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Saints acknowledged the process and ratified it on 25 November 1998. The pope approved the healing to be a miracle in 1991 and beatified Bosatta on 21 April 1991. The current postulator of the cause is Mario Carrera. Dina Bosatta Blessed Dina Bosatta (27 May 1858 - 20 April 1887) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious (nun) who became a professed member of the Daughters of Mary religious congregation alongside her sister Marcellina. Bosatta became a nun in 1878 and assumed the religious name of "Chiara" and devoted her life to God and to the social welfare of neglected
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and one with the death of her third husband). She aspired to become a Buddhist nun, abandoning her make-up, shaving off her blond hair and taking on the humble orange-purple garb of the monks and nuns. In 1995, she moved to Kathmandu where, at the request of Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche and Matthieu Ricard, she started Shechen Clinic that she ran till 2007. She officially received the status of a Buddhist nun in 2008, an achievement which was proudly welcomed by her two grown sons. Dominique Marchal Dominique G. Marchal (born 1944) is a Belgian-born author, pilot and mountaineer who became
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Isabel Losada Isabel Losada is a British writer and former actress, singer, dancer, and television producer. Her most recent full-length books ("Men!", "The Battersea Park Road to Paradise" and "Sensation") combine humour with a serious look at their subject matters and are true-life accounts of her own experiences. She has one daughter and lives in Battersea, London. "New Habits" (Hodder) examines happiness among Church of England nuns. When a friend announced that she was going to become a nun (or more correctly a 'religious'), the author decided to interview ten more young women who were making the same choice to
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won an actress prize at the Festival international des jeunes réalisateurs de Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Her work in "Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront", directed by Léa Fehner, won her the Prix Lumière best actress newcomer award, then the Étoile d'or de la presse de la révélation féminine in 2010. In 2013 she appeared in a new screen version of Denis Diderot's "The Nun". Pauline Étienne Pauline Étienne (born 26 June 1989) is a Belgian actress. Her notable films include "Le Bel Âge" and "Silent Voice", for which she won the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress in 2010. Pauline Étienne
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(played by Carroll Baker) in "My Father's Wife" (1976), and a drug-addicted nun (played by Anita Ekberg) in "The Killer Nun" (1978). As the Italian film industry was slowing down somewhat in the 1980s, De Fonseca resumed her career as a film actress in various American films that were shot in Rome, while still continuing to work with dubbing. On screen she played Christopher Reeve's secretary in "Monsignor" (1982), had a supporting role in the Pia Zadora film "The Lonely Lady" (1983), played a comedic role as an American tourist in "Detective School Dropouts" (1986) and finally appeared in Bernardo
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from the end of the 17th century to the end of the 30th century. The paper ends with a brief analysis of a particular aspect: the characters speak in a voice that suggests to the nun almost all of what to write. At first, the authority of the nun is posted with this entry, as is the case for most of the clairvoyants; subsequently, unlike the others that kept the detachment from all their visions, the woman accepted more and more the presence of what became the “sweet voice” letters, even when it promised catastrophe. According to the author, like
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Berlinda of Meerbeke Saint Berlinda (; also known as Bellaude; died 702 AD) was a Benedictine nun of noble descent. Her feast day is 3 February. According to legend she was a niece of Saint Amandus, and was disinherited by her father, Count Odelard, after he became sick with leprosy and believed that she would not take proper care of him. Berlinda fled to a convent at Moorsel, near Aalst, and became a nun. After her father died, she became a hermit at Meerbeke, where her father had been buried. Her tradition states that she spent her life helping the
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poor and suffering. Berlinda of Meerbeke Saint Berlinda (; also known as Bellaude; died 702 AD) was a Benedictine nun of noble descent. Her feast day is 3 February. According to legend she was a niece of Saint Amandus, and was disinherited by her father, Count Odelard, after he became sick with leprosy and believed that she would not take proper care of him. Berlinda fled to a convent at Moorsel, near Aalst, and became a nun. After her father died, she became a hermit at Meerbeke, where her father had been buried. Her tradition states that she spent her
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Marguerite d'Oingt Marguerite d'Oingt (probably 1240–11 February 1310) was a French Carthusian nun and celebrated mystic. She was also among the earliest identified women writers of France. Marguerite was born into the locally powerful family of the seigneurs of Oingt in Beaujolais, who became extinct in 1382 for want of male heirs. She joined the Carthusian Order as a nun, and in 1288 became the fourth prioress of Poletains Charterhouse, near Mionnay in the Dombes, founded in 1238 by Marguerite de Bâgé for nuns who wished to live according to the custom of the Carthusians as far as was then
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Tel Nof Airbase. In July 1967 Ben-Nun shot down an Egyptian MiG-21 over the Suez Canal, and another in October 1967. In March 1969 Ben-Nun was one of the first airmen assigned to fly the F-4 Phantom II. In September 1969 he became commander of 69 Squadron, which he commanded throughout the War of Attrition. In the course of the war, Ben-Nun led the Phantom contingent that participated in operation Rimon 20 and shot down a Russian MiG-21 operating from Egypt. On September 9, 1972, a month after handing command of 69 Squadron to Amnon Arad, Ben-Nun and navigator Zvi
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reputation of piousness and became an abbess. In 2009, Lithuanian historian Algimantas Bučys raised hypothesis that she might be a daughter of Tautvilas, who escaped to Novgorod after her father's murder by Treniota. Charitina of Lithuania Charitina of Lithuania (died 1281) is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Her feast is on 5 October. Because her hagiography did not survive, very little is known about her life. Charitina was a noblewoman from the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania who became a nun in Novgorod. Possibly she was arranged to marry a Prince of Novgorod, but that could be a
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30th Genie Awards in 2010: Burns won the award for Best Supporting Actress. Love and Savagery Love and Savagery is a Canadian-Irish drama film, directed by John N. Smith and released in 2009. The film stars Allan Hawco as Michael, a geologist from Newfoundland and Labrador who travels to Ballyvaughan, Ireland to study limestone, and causes a scandal when he enters a romantic relationship with Cathleen (Sarah Greene), an orphan girl from the village who is about to enter the convent as a Roman Catholic nun. The film's cast also includes Martha Burns, Nicholas Campbell, Andy Jones, Louise Nicol, Mack
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have killed themselves were inspired by her, they said afterwards, even those who had no idea that she was a nun. The Nazis sent Sr. Angela to Auschwitz where she befriended a Jewish woman doctor from Slovakia, Margarita Schwalbova. Feeling depressed and less than human, she was deeply moved when the nun went up to her and gently stroked her hair. Although Schwalbova was an atheist, she and Sister Angela became friends, with the latter acting in a way that earned her the title "Angel of Auschwitz". When Schwalbova was sick, she told her stories about the lives and miracles
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