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UrbScotty

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Thu Jun 13, 2013, 12:39 PM Jun 2013

Cloistered nun, 105, dies after 86 years in monastery

A nun believed to hold the world record of 86 years cloistered in a monastery has died in Spain.

Sister Maria Romero, abbess of the Buenafuente del Sistal monastery northeast of Madrid said Wednesday that Sister Teresita Barajuen had died overnight. She was 105.

She entered the Cistercian monastery when she was 19, the abbess said.

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In 2011, Barajuen left the monastery for the first time in 40 years to meet retired Benedict XVI during a papal visit to Madrid. She had entered the monastery on the same day he was born.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/cloistered-nun-said-to-hold-record-of-86-years-in-monastery-dies-in-spain/2013/06/12/e741ddfa-d391-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_story.html
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Cloistered nun, 105, dies after 86 years in monastery (Original Post) UrbScotty Jun 2013 OP
Thank you for your life of service and prayer, Sr. Maria (nt) TommyCelt Jun 2013 #1
Wow. rug Jun 2013 #2
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