Word: conventionality
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...southern Spain, 80 miles from the Portuguese frontier, 1,500 Rightists who eight months ago shut themselves up in the Sanctuary of the Virgin, a convent atop Mount Cabeza, last week scaled the granite walls of their fortress to escape. They were fleeing not from the Leftist siege but from two officers of their own side, Captain Cortes and Lieutenant Ruano, who had set up a rule of military terror in the convent, throwing into musty cells the starved and sick who wanted to surrender. During the siege, 21 children were born in the Virgin's Sanctuary...
...came time for my wreath-laying and it was only after several days of search that, quite by accident, a woman came forward who remembered the funeral of Paxton Hibben and it was she who finally led me to his grave in the cemetery of the ancient Novo-Devichi Convent on the outskirts of Moscow. LIONEL TOMPKINS...
Marlene Dietrich is a wealthy orphan named Domini Enfilden, who proposes to the Mother Superior of the convent where she was brought up a difficult question. "What," Domini asks, "am I to do?" "Go away . . . perhaps, to the desert," says the Mother Superior. This is bad advice. First person Domini meets in the desert is Boris Andtovsky (Charles Boyer), a renegade Trappist monk out to discover, after breaking his vow of lifelong silence, just what it is that makes the world go round. When he has scraped acquaintance with Domini in a night club, they go riding. Without telling...
...action commences in 18th century France during the honeymoon of a Spanish nobleman with the young daughter of an English merchant. Enraged at being cuckolded by an English officer, the Spaniard allows his wife to die in childbirth, and he deposits the child in a convent. Unknowingly apprenticed to his own grandfather, the child grows up to become the heir and hope of the family firm, the Casa da Bonnyfeather...
...ripped out religious paintings and statuary, tore open tabernacles and ground Sacred Hosts on the floor. Not content with such acts of sacrilege, Barcelona Reds wantonly dug up pious dead, either crucifying freshly buried bodies, as was done in the Monastery of St. Dominic, or hauling out from their convent crypts the ancient mummies of Carmelite nuns, propping them up around church doors to look like saints.* Near Barcelona a dance to celebrate Leftist victories was held in what remained of a church, "in order to get the people away from the idea that it is a sacred place...