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...Born in Beirut in 1925 to a Syrian father and a Greek mother, she was educated in French at a school run by nuns before winning a scholarship to the Sorbonne in Paris to study philosophy....
...The child’s father (Vincent Lindon) takes her in, even though it’s clear there’s something strange about Adrien, not least his pregnancy . . ....
...Highlights of the works, which Christie’s will only confirm are from “a family collection” and number fewer “than 10”, include Vincent van Gogh’s “La Mousmé” (1888), a pencil and ink drawing made during...
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...The FT’s Lombard columnist Matthew Vincent, meanwhile, was left feeling unimpressed by both sides....
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...In stylishly tenebrous visuals, like an old oil painting approaching its clean-by date, the prologue tells of a 17th-century nun charged with demonic possession....
...One is the self-destruction of the Catholic Church, after two decades of revelations of the physical and sexual abuse of children by priests and (sometimes) nuns....
...The straight-talking 57-year-old nun was sent to Benin City earlier this year by her Catholic order, the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul....
...Radios are a vital part of the country’s culture; a space where every section of society – from the Catholic nun to the voodoo priestess – gets a voice and an audience....
...Casanova turned his persuasive talents to deflowering nuns. Mahatma Gandhi used his to argue for the principle of non-violence....
...Vincent Cassel plays the Mephistophelian maître de ballet, priming his new production of Swan Lake. The film is lurid, melodramatic, over-the-top – and currently a hot awards favourite....
...Sainthood was not a “medal for good management service” but testimony to John Paul II’s “closeness to God”, Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster and leader of Catholics in England and Wales, opined...
...“I am looked after very nicely by nuns. La Sagesse, the Daughters of Wisdom.” Do they make breakfast, lunch and tea? “We muck in a bit, actually.” How many nuns? “There’s two, actually.”...
...Separately, the senior Catholic in England and Wales, the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, said there could be “no excuses” for the “inadequate” response by church leaders to dealing with the...
...After eight years of debate, Pope John Paul II asked the nuns to move into a building a mile away....
...Painted for various Prato churches and convents in collaboration with his pupil Fra Diamante, three altarpieces – “The Nativity with St George and St Vincent Ferrer” (1456), “The Virgin of the Belt” (1456...
...Opening on Friday, the triple bill includes the love-triangle tragedy Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica, a beautifully melodic work about a nun (Sondra Radvanovsky) with a worldly secret; both of these are directed...
...exhibition emphasises the cohesion between the sex-and-mortality introspection of its home-grown Klimts (the tumbling fresco of bodies “Death and Life”), and Schieles (the cathedral-shaped lovers “Cardinal and Nun...
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