A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent. The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows but live an active vocation of prayer and charitable work.. In Christianity, nuns are found in the Roman Catholic, Oriental …

Blue Nun is a German wine brand launched by the company H. Sichel Söhne in 1923 with the 1921 vintage, and which between the 1950s and 1980s was a very popular international brand. For most of its existence, Blue Nun was a single German wine, which until the late 1990s was classified as a Liebfraumilch , but the name is now used for a whole range of wines of various …

Jeanne-Paule Marie "Jeannine" Deckers (17 October 1933 – 29 March 1985), better known as Sœur Sourire (French for ''Smiling Sister'') and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and a member of the Dominican Order in Belgium as Sister Luc Gabriel. She acquired widespread fame in 1963 with the release of the Belgian …

The Nun (dt. „Die Nonne“) ist ein US-amerikanischer Horrorfilm von Regisseur Corin Hardy aus dem Jahr 2018. Er ist eine Produktion von New Line Cinema in Zusammenarbeit mit Atomic Monster Productions und The Safran Company im Verleih von Warner Bros. Pictures.Der Film ist ein weiteres Spin-off zur Conjuring-Filmreihe.In den Hauptrollen sind Demián Bichir, Taissa …

The Nun Study of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease is a continuing longitudinal study, begun in 1986, to examine the onset of Alzheimer's disease. David Snowdon, the founding Nun Study investigator, began the research at the University of Minnesota, later transferring the study to the University of Kentucky in 1986. In 2008, with Snowdon's retirement, the study returned to the …

"The Nun's Priest's Tale" (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in the 1390s, it is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle .

Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Nūn , Hebrew Nun נ ‎, Aramaic Nun , Syriac Nūn ܢܢ, and Arabic Nūn ن (in abjadi order).Its numerical value is 50. It is the third letter in Thaana (ނ), pronounced as "noonu".In all languages, it represents the alveolar nasal /n/.. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek nu (Ν), Etruscan, Latin N, and ...

Warrior Nun is an American fantasy drama streaming television series created by Simon Barry based on the comic book character Warrior Nun Areala by Ben Dunn.. Developed as a feature film adaptation, the idea was re-imagined as a television series for Netflix when the service had given the production a series order for a first season. Filming takes place in multiple locations …

The Flying Nun is an American sitcom about a community of nuns which included one who could fly when the wind caught her cornette.It was produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, written by Tere Rios. Sally Field starred as the title character, Sister Bertrille.. The series originally ran on ABC from September 7, 1967, to April 3, 1970, …

Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། padma chos sgron “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist.She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia.