Sister of Charity

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

a member of one of several congregations of sisters founded in 1634 by St. Vincent de Paul.
any of several other orders of nuns devoted to teaching, care of the sick, etc.

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She is what you’d call a forbidding nun, a Sister of Charity without much of it.

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It was in the summer of 1972 that Canan, a recent graduate of Syracuse University, first met the Sister of Charity, a nurse at the East Coast Migrant Health Project in North Carolina.

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She is a Sister of Charity, and maybe that is why she is so kind and says yes, she will put us wherever there is a spot.

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"I married a Sister of Charity."

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She started out as a Sister of Charity, the religious order that established the school in a tiny brick building in 1913, then moved to a larger, modern structure in 1965.

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sisterly Sister of Loretto

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