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...fault line in the then Turkish province, later Yugoslav republic, now absurdly unnameable independent state of FYROM (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). When she was seven, her father was murdered. Bojaxhiu chose emigration over political activism and at the age of 18 entered the Sisters of Loreto's convent in Ireland as a novice. The Sisters of Loreto, a teaching order, sent her to Bengal in 1929. She spoke broken English and had yet to take her first vows...
...first saw Mother Teresa in the summer of 1951, when I started school at Loreto House in Calcutta. The school was run by the Sisters of Loreto according to directives sent from its principal convent in Ireland. During the British raj, Loreto House had admitted very few Indians. By the time I became a student there, the majority of students were Hindu Bengalis, the daughters of Calcutta's elite families, but the majority of teachers continued to be Irish-born nuns. Mother Teresa was no longer affiliated with the Sisters of Loreto, but she came around to our campus every...
...best advice may be the same that your mother gave you--and that Sister Mary Aloysius, former dietitian at the Mankato, Minn., convent, has been giving the sisters there for the past 30 years: Eat a balanced diet, including plenty of beans and leafy green vegetables. The advice may be the same, but Mary Aloysius reports that ever since the nuns heard about Snowdon's folate findings, they have been crowding around the salad...
...daughter of an Italian mother and a British bookseller father, Warner grew up in Cairo and Brussels before being sent to an English convent school from ages 9 to 17. Though she eventually, painfully, rejected her faith, she says she is still discovering the ways in which Catholicism shaped her. The daily prayers and occasional retreats, those "thrilling" stories about saints, all that icon worship and "the discipline of identification with the suffering body of Christ," she says, "wakened my image-making tendencies...
Thanks to Andrea, the scholars of the convent decide to invent a story about a gathering of history's greatest minds in New Orleans. The unfolding of their story effects the fabric of reality, and the great minds descend on Louisiana, sent there by heaven to pass judgment on the world in what is, perhaps, the novel's weakest link...