Nuns on the Run.
86 year old Sister Marie-Daniel and 82 year old Sister Saint-Denis have gone on the run from their convent in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
They had intended to be accompanied by 89-year old Sister Maurice-Marie, but she managed to break a leg and had to abandon her escape.
They went on the run after the ‘council’ of Saint Joseph’s convent decided they should be put in an old people’s home. One of the nuns is apparently heavily disabled.
“At that age, you don’t move people about. It kills them,” said the nephew of 89-year-old Sister Maurice-Marie.
The nuns seem to be moving about pretty efficiently without killing themselves – they took off from the convent at a steady clop 10 days ago, and the Mother Superior hasn’t caught up with them yet.
When she does, she plans to discipline them in a religious court for disobeying her order to go and be disabled and elderly and sit quietly with the other old ladies.
The nuns are reputed to have hired ecclesiastical lawyers themselves; meanwhile, they keep on running.
The Tour de France ended yesterday, so we are occupying ourselves betting on which octogenarian Nun will get the yellow wimple today.
#SillyWeek
August 1, 2010 at 21:42
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Good for them!
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July 27, 2010 at 16:12
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My great-grandmother, in her nineties, let an attempt with two other
residents at her nursing home, to escape. Sadly they were discovered when the
taxi she had ordered, arrived to pick them up.
- July
27, 2010 at 09:25
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Young master Winwood has their signature tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LVI1gDswg
- July 26,
2010 at 21:39
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The problem is a shortage of nuns. As long as society ensured a regular
supply of novices, the convents were able to take care of the elderly and
disabled members of their orders and often of the community at large as well –
in fact it was a matter of pride that they should do so.
Several orders take vows of stability and their nuns signed up expecting to
live, die and be buried within the convent walls. However, these days there
simply aren’t enough recruits to keep the wheels turning; that way of life is,
I suspect, gone forever and the state will have to step in accordingly.
Still, the best of luck to Srs Marie-Daniel and Saint-Denis, wherever they
are!
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July 26, 2010 at 18:02
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Good grief – with God on their side and a firm wind at their back one
wishes them bon chance! You canny kick nuns out of their gaff – FFS, they’ve
probably been there since pupilage. Ridiculous. This Mother Superior sounds a
bit mean, frankly.
- July 26, 2010 at 17:56
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No wonder the French authorities initially forbade the screening of Jacques
Rivette’s film of Diderot’s La Religieuse. Give nuns the idea that they should
not simply put up with the orders of their superiors, and all hell breaks
loose.
- July 26,
2010 at 16:36
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Go on Nuns leg it to Amsterdam for a final few years/weeks/days of complete
debauchery, you know you want to….
- July 26, 2010 at 16:35
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I have a lot of sympathy. They’ve been trying to put me in a home since
570AD, but I’ms still running!
Go sisters!
Gildas the Monk
- July 26,
2010 at 15:47
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Which one’s wearing the yellow jersey?
- July 26, 2010 at 14:34
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I hope they make it safe to the Penguin Sanctuary; nobody will find them
there.
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