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• n  a religious residence especially for nuns
• n  a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together

• Given the aging population of the convent, they knew that a significant proportion of the nuns would have the disease.
• Sister Thrse Saglimbeni, 27, a novice who joined the convent in 2005, recalls watching the sisters playing volleyball while she was a student at the nearby State University of .
• One convent is hurriedly raising funds for a new building to house the inflow, and at another a rush of new blood has lowered the median age of its 225 sisters to 36.

News & Articles

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• University Mound, true diversity symbol
  University Mound, true diversity symbol [...] that is exactly what stands shrouded by cypress trees on obscure University Mound, the ranch-house home of the Convent of the Good Shepherd. "When I came here three years ago, I was struck by how cosmopolitan the city is," said Sister Barbara Beasley, community leader for the seven sisters who share meals and prayers under a dark pitched roof. The ...
  June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• Rutgers football program ranks 11th in national APR
  The vehicle crossing grade at Convent Station train station is scheduled to be closed for... - 3:41 pm
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Record
• Hakeem Nicks shows up for Giants minicamp
  The vehicle crossing grade at Convent Station train station is scheduled to be closed for... - 3:41 pm
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Record

Quotes

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• Antonio in Times of India
  The concept of a beach-convent is something that is appreciated by vacationers and the nuns themselves,priest Antonio Rungi, who helped spearheaded the initiative, told Italian news agency ANSA.
• Tim Gunn in Sify
  Forgive me. She is just a little too tart. I don't want her to look like she is going into a convent school. But it is just a little too much for a 15-year-old. If I didn't know better, I would swear she was 25 years old,Gunn told Ok!
• Rafael Correa in Venezuelanalysis.com
  Correa added that she "was an orphan as her mother died at birth and so was given by her father to a convent of nuns of the conception, due to the morals of the society at the time she was branded an illegitimate child."