9 sentences with 'nuns'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nuns and other words derived from it.
• « Monks and nuns took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience when they left their normal lives and joined (respectively) monasteries and convents. »
• « Instead, monks and nuns were to devote themselves to prayer and useful works, activities that were seen as fostering piety and devotion among monks and nuns, and which were often extremely profitable for the monasteries and convents themselves. »
• « Monks and nuns encouraged innovative new forms of agriculture on their lands, sold products (including the textiles and beer and wine mentioned above) at a healthy profit and, despite their vows of poverty, successful monasteries and convents were lavishly decorated and made luxurious for their inhabitants. »
• « The contrast between the vow of poverty demanded by monks and nuns and the wealth and luxury enjoyed by many monks and nuns was evident to the laity. »
• « Numerous devout priests, monks and nuns abhorred the corruption of their peers and superiors in the Church and called for change - the Spanish branch of the Church enjoyed a strong period of reform during the 15th century, for example. »
• « A significant new order in this line was the Carmelites, an order of nuns reformed by St Teresa of Avila from 1535. »
• « The only form of political organisation tolerated in Tibet is communist, and many live in fear of the "examinations" by which soldiers put monks and nuns in the dilemma of giving up their desire to see a free and independent Tibet, or face torture and imprisonment. »
• « Two nuns - Lobsang, 33, and her best friend, Gendun, 28 - suddenly emerged from a ditch they had used as a hiding place, threw their backpacks into the truck and the others helped them up; their crimson hats vanished into the shadows. »
• « This is the conclusion of a study in which the health of 102 nuns was observed over many years until they died. At autopsy, 61 of them showed the brain lesions characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. »