convent
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Seasonal purists could just download the dozen or so Christmas episodes of this long-running and still-exceptional drama about a group of midwives working out of a convent in London’s East End.
From Los Angeles Times
That this is all unfolding at a convent is an obvious irony, though as handled here it isn’t a cheap or facile one.
Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday.
From Barron's
Three Austrian nuns in their 80s who ran away from the old people's home where they were placed have been told they can stay in their former convent "until further notice".
From BBC
In contrast to this lavish vision, at the show’s second venue, the convent of San Marco, visitors see the painter’s austere side.
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