convent

She felt a calling to become a nun in the third grade, and after high school joined a convent in Dubuque, Iowa.

Three Austrian nuns in their 80s have run away from the old people's home where they were placed and gone back to their former convent.

Built in 1704, Woolton Hall previously served as a hotel, an army hospital, a convent and a school but had fallen into disrepair in recent years.

But her father, a government employee, wanted more for her and at the age of eight, enrolled her in a convent school where the medium of instruction was the state's official language - Kannada.

It used to be that academia was the equivalent of a convent, where the nuns and monks went to do their thinking, and even that doesn’t exist anymore.