convent
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The adaptation retained the 18th-century setting and the central plot: The teenage siren Manon, on her way to a convent, runs off with a smitten young aristocrat, the Chevalier Des Grieux.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
In Rome, they founded the convent of Santa Maria del Popolo at one of the city's main entrances, with trees and gardens nearby.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026
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 • Dec. 10, 2025
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 • Nov. 28, 2025
Why should he send me to a convent?
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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