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From Salon • Dec. 15, 2013

Convents were hot spots for nutty outbreaks, too: In 1491, nuns in Cambrai, France, started yelping like dogs, whereas the sisters in a Spanish nunnery took to bleating like sheep.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2010

Convents for females were founded, to attract and receive the newly-converted, and to offer them a powerful bait composed of love and mysticism.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules

Convents were in those days, as in fact they are now, quite famous as places of education.

From Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Convents sprang up everywhere, sheltering a great number of women, of both high and low degree.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred