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State security agents were watching him inside the sister's house, she said.
2
I followed in another year, and my sister arrived three years later.
3
My sister called early one morning, before I'd even left for work.
4
I asked her again, 'Was your sister really not at home, Phuong?'
5
My sister thought it was vitally important that I come here today.
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Of course a nun wouldn't know when to let well enough alone.
2
What she needed now, the good nun said, was rest and sympathy.
3
Comments by the nun in charge of the children are given throughout.
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One is said to be a nun who died four centuries ago.
5
She is a former nun who was debauched long ago by Docre.
1
But he persisted; and they exchanged a solemn kiss, the religious sister of their usual passionate kisses.
2
In 1990, on a visit to Sweden, I met a religious sister, a member of the Dominican congregation.
3
He looked astonished at an elderly religious sister nurse dressing the gaping wounds of a poor leprosy patient.
4
Two religious sisters who accompanied her appeared more moved than she.
5
I refer to the thousands of Irish religious sisters and religious brothers, living and dead.
1
It rests ultimately on a strong idea of spiritual isolation; the same that makes women religious.
2
Sister Pat Murray, a nun of the Loreto order, said women religious want to be respected by the church.
3
In 2010 I participated in a four-day retreat with nineteen women religious leaders of many faiths and perspectives to begin to grapple with these questions.
4
She had entered religious life in 1939, three years after the removal of the papal ban on Catholic women religious working in surgery and obstetrics.
5
Madam, - I am researching the role and impact of Irish women religious who undertook missionary work abroad during the period 1900-1970.