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Santa Catalina cloistered nunnery, late 16th century to present day - though recently nuns moved to a neighbouring building - then, 300 or so unwanted French daughters sent over for life, nowadays about 20 nuns, still arguably cloistered. Interesting regime changes occured over the centuries, from originally private, luxurious, class-ridden life with servants to communal,ascetic, servantless with quasi-free elections for head-nun |