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The nuns in question fled here from Santa Clara Convent in the 16th century to escape raiding pirates.
After winning Best Director at Cannes and making a splash at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's ode to women opens to gushing praise: "the most moving film of his career" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). A single mother whose teen-age son is suddenly killed makes a pilgrimage to track down the boy's father and in the process encounters women from all walks of life--transsexuals, pregnant nuns, divas, and more.
Back down by the river, Place d’Youville, named after a lady who established here the charitable order of the Grey Nuns, offers a quieter, more romantic end to your tour of Vieux Montréal.
Built toward the end of the 15th century and expanded two centuries later, it’s now a school run by Franciscan nuns.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Rosemary Keefe Curb was one of three finalists for a job as dean of the college of arts and sciences until a local New Paltz resident acquired a copy of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence , a book Curb co-edited that contains such statements as: "I've never been initiated into a coven, but I like to call myself a witch."