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Rocio opens the door. “There’s nothing left in the shop and the others are still clearing up lunch. They can’t talk now and we haven’t eaten yet.” She is the youngest member of the group formed around three schismatic nuns who have dared to defy their archbishop and have emerged from cloister with a vengeance.
It’s 5 p.m. on a Saturday. “I’m so hungry my stomach hurts,” she adds, with a huge smile.
Another day for the rebellious nuns, and another 90 people fed in the restaurant they run in Arriondas, a town of 2,000 inhabitants on the north coast of Spain. Three of the Clarisas abandoned the convent where they lived in central Spain after a protracted row with the Archbishop of Burgos. Ten others, five of them aged between 82 and 100, stayed behind, along with the abbess (Mother Isabel de la Trinidad, 57), and the fugitives are working long hours to support themselves and those still in Belorado.
Selling chocolates online was bringing in poor returns, so they set up a rural hotel in a disused convent in Vizcaya province and were breeding and training dogs for the blind and as emotional support pets.
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It’s 5 p.m. on a Saturday. “I’m so hungry my stomach hurts,” she adds, with a huge smile.
Another day for the rebellious nuns, and another 90 people fed in the restaurant they run in Arriondas, a town of 2,000 inhabitants on the north coast of Spain. Three of the Clarisas abandoned the convent where they lived in central Spain after a protracted row with the Archbishop of Burgos. Ten others, five of them aged between 82 and 100, stayed behind, along with the abbess (Mother Isabel de la Trinidad, 57), and the fugitives are working long hours to support themselves and those still in Belorado.
Selling chocolates online was bringing in poor returns, so they set up a rural hotel in a disused convent in Vizcaya province and were breeding and training dogs for the blind and as emotional support pets.
Continued below.
Rebel nuns with no time for Vatican II embrace entrepreneurism to survive - Catholic Herald
Rocio opens the door. “There’s nothing left in the shop and the others are still clearing up lunch. They can’t talk now and we haven’t eaten yet.” She is the youngest member of the group formed around three schismatic nuns who have dared to defy their archbishop and have emerged from cloister...
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