nun
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“It’s difficult to maintain hope amid so much tragedy,” said a nun from Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity congregation, who was consoling survivors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The word nun was not in my vocabulary,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But she would end up in a totally different role - first a nun and now, 10 years to the day after her death in an earthquake, a would-be saint.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Rosa Padhilete, a Franciscan nun who came from Naples, said she felt an "immense, inexplicable joy" seeing the remains.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
At a migrant labor camp not far from Duke, Farmer met a Belgian nun, Julianna DeWolf, who worked with Friends of the United Farm Workers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing nun
World Religions
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