(ANSA) – ROME, APR 30 – Five nuns have fled a northern Italian convent after the abbess they were fond of was sacked amid “grave vicissitudes”, they told police in informing them that they were safely on their way to another secret refuge.
The nuns from the convent at San Giacomo di Veglia at Vittorio Veneto near Treviso, which is famous for the Prosecco DOCG it produces, said they had decided to quit the religious retreat due to “unbearable tensions” following the dismissal of Mother Superior Aline Pereira.
They said they had decided to go to the local Carabinieri barracks to report their defection in order to avoid alarmism.
The Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of the Consecrated Life said it had placed the convent under new management due to “a series of critical issues”, under the guidance of Mother Martha Driscoll, emeritus abbess of Gedono in Indonesia. (ANSA).
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The nuns from the convent at San Giacomo di Veglia at Vittorio Veneto near Treviso, which is famous for the Prosecco DOCG it produces, said they had decided to quit the religious retreat due to “unbearable tensions” following the dismissal of Mother Superior Aline Pereira.
They said they had decided to go to the local Carabinieri barracks to report their defection in order to avoid alarmism.
The Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of the Consecrated Life said it had placed the convent under new management due to “a series of critical issues”, under the guidance of Mother Martha Driscoll, emeritus abbess of Gedono in Indonesia. (ANSA).
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