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Were there any nuns who helped the poor?
Entire religious orders are directed with the charity to those less fortunate apostolate! the Little Sisters of the Poor is a familiar example. Charity is about giving. At times this will take in...
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Who was the nun who did a lot of work for the poor?
You might be thinking of Mother Teresa, a Macedonian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in the nineteen fifties.
She was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient; died in...
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Why is a nun called a nun?
In popular usage (Nun) is believed to be a contraction, like Tractor is from the older Traction engine, of (renunciant) as they have renonced the secular world, reside in cloisters and convents, etc....
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What is a nun?
A woman who has dedicated her life in service to Christ by serving Him in service to the people of God. Who nurses the ill and educates the poor. Nuns also give up houses in their convent to nurse...
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What did the nuns do?
the nuns help teach kids the important and reading and writing in the middle ages