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Looking after the old and infirm Nuns UK 1980s
Poor Clare Colettines retain the traditional habit, night rising, perpetual fast and the observance of papal enclosure. They also continue to go barefoot as a sign of Gospel poverty and in witness to the transcendence of God. Church of England. They are a a closed order, no visitors are allowed, they live a silent life of prayer. Sister Colette in the Infirmary with Sister Raphael. Much Birch, Herefordshire, England circa 1989.
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