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1963 documentary on a monastery in England!


Sr Mary Catharine OP

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"Their quarters are chilly and challenging, but their greenhouses are kept as warm as a good tomato crop demands." LOL!

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This monastery was founded by the Empress Eugenie of France in exile, to keep the tombs of her husband Napoleon III and her son who dies in the zulu wars.  She moved to the house, Farnborough Hill, on the other side of the railway cutting and when she died the house was taken over by the Religious of Christian Education for the school which they had founded in Farnborough when religious education was effectively banned in France.  Both school and monastery (which used to supply chaplains to the school) survive, although the sisters are now few and frail.

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