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Monday is laundry day at Val Mustair. Nuns working to hang clothes to dry in the sun are reflected in windows overlooking the Christian convent courtyard. A world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, the convent is home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work but they come together for prayer and meals. Eleven of the nuns who live there speak a variation of the Romanche language.
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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appliances, catholic clergy, catholic religion, christian clergy, christian religion, clergy, clotheslines, convents and monasteries, elevated views, europe, laundry, mustair, religion, religions of the world, religious structures, saint john's convent (mustair), scenes and views, switzerland, windows, world heritage sites
- Contained in galleries
- Alps_National Geographic magazine 2/2006
