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  • Religious icons outside a Catholic church on a hillside.
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  • A lone man is silhouetted while watching a bonfire burn in the street outside the Cathdral in Loja.  San Pedro Y San Pablo is a Catholic religious-themed fiesta. Many of the indigenous festivals celebrating the movements of the sun and the harvests were incorporated into the Christian tradition, resulting in a syncretism of Catholic religious imagery and older indigenous beliefs.<br />
The Ecuadorian city is nestled in the Cuxibamba Valley at 7,000 feet in elevation.
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  • An elderly woman has a front-window view of a Good Friday procession.
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  • Cloistered Catholic nuns ride in a modern glass elevator added to the 16th century Convento de Carmen Alto. The Carmelite order was forced to settle in Quito after destruction of their monastery in a 1698 earthquake. Older nuns appreciate the convenience to climbing stairs to attend prayer in the chapel.
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  • The Cathedral of Siena.
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  • A nun makes wafers for communion at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent in the Colonial historic district of Quito.
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  • Mother Superior's dog greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The convent is home to cloistered nuns in the center of the historic district of Quito.
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  • Mother Superior joins other nuns for a tasty breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent. Women in the cloistered Carmelite religious order in Quito have jobs and duties performed throughout the monastery daily.
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  • Cloistered nuns enter the cathedral for a brief private morning prayer and return through fenced gates to Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Mother Superior leads prayer during morning mass at Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • Nuns take communion from a priest through  a metal fence that divides the women from the public during morning mass in Quito's cloistered, Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • Nuns enjoy coffee and tea for breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent where women live in silence and behind walls in downtown, historic Quito.
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  • Mother Superior's dogs greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The cloistered convent is located in the historic, Colonial district of Quito.
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  • The Cathedral of Siena.
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  • A nun at Val Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent of St. John.
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  • Nuns at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent, gather with their dog that all the women love.
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  • Morning prayers in the chapel bring a group of cloistered nuns together at Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito.
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  • Sculpted bronze doors on the baptistry next to the Cathedral of Siena.
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