nunnery

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Get me to a nunnery, but I’m weary of presenting filmland’s biggest honor to the kind of movie people rarely want to watch twice.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

The notion of using the exhibition as a learning center pairs nicely with its location at Istituto Marcelline Tommaseo, a century-old nunnery and school in Milan, which has never hosted an exhibition during design week.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Last year’s most unlikely bestseller was “Matrix,” a novel by Lauren Groff about an obscure medieval poet named Marie de France and a 12th-century nunnery.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

About 100 nuns live and study at her Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery in India.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021

And on Port Meadow at the full moon there’s a werewolf that comes out from the old nunnery at Godstow.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman