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* The cultural trope of Marian visionaries joining a convent/monastery and/or dying young is so codified and ingrained in everyone's minds that visionaries are often criticized or flat-out disbelieved if they stay in the secular world or directly intervene in secular or religious matters. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Calvat Melanie Calvat]], one of the visionaries of La Salette, got lambasted for either trying to intervene in the French state's relationship with the Church, or being used as an UnwittingPawn by conservative politicians. The little visionaries of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Beauraing Our Lady of Beauraing]] were raked over the coals for getting married and having normal family lives. A priest who'd studied the visitations defended the children and issued a snarky comment about the stereotype causing people to expect all Marian visionaries to follow the same pattern.

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* The cultural trope of Marian visionaries joining a convent/monastery and/or dying young is so codified and ingrained in everyone's minds that visionaries are often criticized or flat-out disbelieved if they stay in the secular world or directly intervene in secular or religious matters. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Calvat Melanie Calvat]], one of the visionaries of La Salette, got lambasted for either trying to intervene in the French state's relationship with the Church, or being used as an UnwittingPawn by conservative politicians. The little visionaries of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Beauraing Our Lady of Beauraing]] were raked over the coals for getting married and having normal family lives. Benedictine scholar Hughes Delogne points out that Mary herself was married, and asked Christ to do his first miracle (water into wine) at a wedding, something a lot of people seem to forget. A priest who'd studied the visitations defended the children and issued a snarky comment about the stereotype causing people to expect all Marian visionaries to follow the same pattern.
--> ''According to our way of looking at sanctity, these children should have entered a convent at a very early age and died of consumption at the age of twenty-two. The Blessed Virgin probably has a different way of looking at things.''
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* The Australian sex comedy ''Film/AlvinPurple'' (1973) has the CluelessChickMagnet falling in love with the one woman who's irresistible to his charms. At the end of the movie she becomes a nun, so Alvin gets a job as the gardener at the nunnery to be with her. Where he gets [[NunTooHolly eyed by a lot of appreciative nuns]].

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* The Australian sex comedy ''Film/AlvinPurple'' (1973) has the CluelessChickMagnet falling in love with the one woman who's irresistible to his charms. At the end of the movie she becomes a nun, so Alvin gets a job as the gardener at the nunnery to be with her. Where he gets [[NunTooHolly [[NunTooHoly eyed by a lot of appreciative nuns]].
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* The Australian sex comedy ''Film/AlvinPurple'' (1973) has the CluelessChickMagnet falling in love with the one woman who's irresistible to his charms. At the end of the movie she becomes a nun, so Alvin gets a job as the gardener at the nunnery to be with her. Where he gets [[NunTooHolly eyed by a lot of appreciative nuns]].

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Corrected the last name of Maria in The Sound of Music, and added reference to the fact that one of Dolores Hart's roles in her Hollywood career was Saint Clare, who is herself a real-life example of the trope.


* In ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', Maria Kutschera was a nun-in-training before being sent to the Von Trapp family as a governess. Later in the play/movie, she tries to ''definitely'' return to the convent after she realizes she is in love with the Captain. The Reverend Mother, being a rather savvy sort of person, informs Maria kindly but firmly that she can't use the convent to run away from her feelings, and reassures her that "just because you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less." Maria takes the advice at heart and averts the trope by returning to the family and marrying the Captain.

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* In ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', Maria Kutschera Rainer was a nun-in-training before being sent to the Von Trapp family as a governess. Later in the play/movie, she tries to ''definitely'' return to the convent after she realizes she is in love with the Captain. The Reverend Mother, being a rather savvy sort of person, informs Maria kindly but firmly that she can't use the convent to run away from her feelings, and reassures her that "just because you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less." Maria takes the advice at heart and averts the trope by returning to the family and marrying the Captain.



* Actress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Hart Dolores Hart]], who had been in 10 films in the late 1950's and early 1960's (making her debut with Music/ElvisPresley), surprised many fans when she left her acting career to become a Benedictine nun in 1963. She initially discovered her vocation while playing the above-mentioned St. Clare in 1961's Francis of Assisi.



* Actress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Hart Dolores Hart]], who had been in 10 films in the late 1950's and early 1960's (making her debut with Music/ElvisPresley), surprised many fans when she left her acting career to become a Benedictine nun in 1963.
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* In some versions of the [[KingArthur Arthurian]] myths, after the Battle of Camlann Lancelot returns from France to find that Guinevere, repenting for what she has indirectly caused, has taken vows in a nunnery. In the same vein, Lancelot then goes on to become a monk.

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* In some versions of the [[KingArthur [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Arthurian]] myths, after the Battle of Camlann Lancelot returns from France to find that Guinevere, repenting for what she has indirectly caused, has taken vows in a nunnery. In the same vein, Lancelot then goes on to become a monk.
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* ''Film/DangerousLiaisons'' follows its source novel (see below) in having Cecile demonstrate two firms of the trope, at the beginning and the end; she was immured by her parents throughout her childhood, to protect her from the world, and after the tragic plot of the film works itself out, she is broken and becomes a nun. Valmont expresses the same opinion of the difficulty of seducing such a sheltered girl, too; “too easy.”


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* In ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons,'' Cecile starts the story freshly emerged from the convent where her parents placed her to shelter her from the world, and ends it broken by tragedy and retiring to become a nun. Incidentally, Valmont, TheCasanova, is bitingly sarcastic about the effectiveness of a convent upbringing in ensuring virtue (and demonstrates the point as a means to an end):
-->“To seduce a young girl, who has seen nothing, knows nothing, and would in a manner give herself up without making the least defence, intoxicated with the first homage paid to her charms, and perhaps incited rather by curiosity than love; there twenty others may be as successful as I.”
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* At the end of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29491713 Helluva Deal]]'', [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Lila Rossi]] decides to join a convent to save her soul since she now has definitive proof that Hell exists, and she knows that she'll end up there if she doesn't change her ways.
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* The quote at the top of the page is from Creator/RumerGodden's ''In This House of Brede'', about Philippa Talbot, a successful professional woman who well into her forties abandons her life of London sophistication for the Benedictines, an enclosed contemplative order[[note]]It's immediately clear that this is a lively, intelligent, sophisticated congregation, with many creative and practical occupations[[/note]]. She has many reasons, one of which is [[spoiler: the death of her five-year-old son in a highly publicized tragic accident]], a fact that she hides from everyone.

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* The quote at the top of the page is from Creator/RumerGodden's ''In This House of Brede'', about Philippa Talbot, a successful professional woman who well into her forties abandons her life of London sophistication for the Benedictines, an enclosed contemplative order[[note]]It's immediately clear that this is a lively, intelligent, sophisticated congregation, with many creative and practical occupations[[/note]]. She has many reasons, one of which is [[spoiler: the death of her five-year-old son in a highly publicized tragic accident]], a fact that she hides from everyone.
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* In ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', Maria Kutschera was a nun-in-training before being sent to the Von Trapp family as a nun. Later in the play/movie, she tries to ''definitely'' return to the convent after she realizes she is in love with the Captain. The Reverend Mother, being a rather savvy sort of person, informs Maria kindly but firmly that she can't use the convent to run away from her feelings, and reassures her that "just because you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less." Maria takes the advice at heart and averts the trope by returning to the family and marrying the Captain.

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* In ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', Maria Kutschera was a nun-in-training before being sent to the Von Trapp family as a nun.governess. Later in the play/movie, she tries to ''definitely'' return to the convent after she realizes she is in love with the Captain. The Reverend Mother, being a rather savvy sort of person, informs Maria kindly but firmly that she can't use the convent to run away from her feelings, and reassures her that "just because you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less." Maria takes the advice at heart and averts the trope by returning to the family and marrying the Captain.
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* The quote at the top of the page is from Creator/RumerGodden's ''In This House of Brede'', about Philippa Talbot, a successful professional woman who well into her forties abandons her life of London sophistication for the cloister. She has many reasons, one of which is [[spoiler: the death of her five-year-old son in a highly publicized tragic accident]], a fact that she hides from everyone.

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* The quote at the top of the page is from Creator/RumerGodden's ''In This House of Brede'', about Philippa Talbot, a successful professional woman who well into her forties abandons her life of London sophistication for the cloister.Benedictines, an enclosed contemplative order[[note]]It's immediately clear that this is a lively, intelligent, sophisticated congregation, with many creative and practical occupations[[/note]]. She has many reasons, one of which is [[spoiler: the death of her five-year-old son in a highly publicized tragic accident]], a fact that she hides from everyone.
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* Lucia Santos has become a nun in the very last scene in ''Film/TheMiracleOfOurLadyOfFatima'', where the basilica commemorating her and her cousins' 1917 visions of the Blessed Virgin is opened. The real Lucia did go to a convent school at 13, run by the Dorothean sisters; by the time the basilica opened she was 46 and in the enclosed Carmelite order, although she was present at the festival.

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* Lucia Santos has become a nun in the very last scene in ''Film/TheMiracleOfOurLadyOfFatima'', where the basilica commemorating her and her cousins' 1917 visions of the Blessed Virgin is opened. The real Lucia did go to a convent school at 13, run by the Dorothean sisters; sisters, and later joined their convent; by the time the basilica opened she was 46 and in the enclosed Carmelite order, although she was present at the festival.

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* Lucia Santos has become a nun in the very last scene in ''Film/TheMiracleOfOurLadyOfFatima'', where the basilica commemorating her and her cousins' 1917 visions of the Blessed Virgin is opened. The real Lucia did go to a convent school at 13, run by the Dorothean sisters; by the time the basilica opened she was 46 and in the enclosed Carmelite order, although she was present at the festival.



* In the 1923 silent film ''Film/TheWhiteSister'', the heroine (played by Creator/LillianGish) receives word that her OneTrueLove has died, and she then decides to serve as a nun in his memory. [[DisneyDeath Oops, turns out he was still alive.]]

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* In the 1923 silent film ''Film/TheWhiteSister'', the heroine (played by Creator/LillianGish) receives word that her OneTrueLove (Creator/RonaldColman) has died, and she then decides to serve as a nun in his memory. [[DisneyDeath Oops, turns out he was still alive.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Evraine explains that she became a monk because she couldn't stand the DeadlyDecadentCourt her brother the king surrounded himself with, and if she didn't join the Carawen, she's be required to participate in the state duties instead of running around the countryside as a WarriorMonk.

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* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Evraine explains that she became a monk because she couldn't stand the DeadlyDecadentCourt DecadentCourt her brother the king surrounded himself with, and if she didn't join the Carawen, she's be required to participate in the state duties instead of running around the countryside as a WarriorMonk.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg Princess Alice of Battenberg]], [[UsefulNotes/BritishRoyalFamily Prince Philip]]'s mother, took her vows later in life, after her husband's death. She founded a religious order in Greece, and ran an orphanage, sometimes pawning trinkets from her royal past to support the order. She kept up many of her habits from before the religious life, to the puzzlement of many (including her mother, who famously commented, "What can you say of a nun who smokes and plays canasta?"). It was a capstone to a colorful life that included sheltering Jews from Nazis in Athens and being named as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg Princess Alice of Battenberg]], [[UsefulNotes/BritishRoyalFamily Prince Philip]]'s mother, took her vows later in life, after her husband's death. She founded a religious order in Greece, and ran an orphanage, sometimes pawning trinkets from her royal past to support the order. She kept up many of her habits from before the religious life, to the puzzlement of many (including her mother, who famously commented, "What can you say of a nun who smokes and plays canasta?"). It was a capstone to a colorful life that included sheltering Jews from Nazis in Athens and being named as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. (Her last years are a main source for a few episodes of ''Series/TheCrown2016'', particularly S02E04 "Bubbikins".)
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* In the fifth alternate ending in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5425367/1/ Five Happily Ever Afters for Juliet Capulet]]'', Juliet is rescued in time but Romeo isn't. Friar Lawrence helps her find solace in her faith, and she takes the veil and eventually becomes an abbess, finding genuine if bittersweet happiness and praying for Romeo’s soul.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg Princess Alice of Battenberg]], Prince Philip's mother, took her vows later in life, founded a religious order in Greece, and ran an orphanage. It was a capstone to a colorful life that included sheltering Jews from Nazis in Athens and being named as one of the Righteous Among Nations.

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg Princess Alice of Battenberg]], [[UsefulNotes/BritishRoyalFamily Prince Philip's Philip]]'s mother, took her vows later in life, after her husband's death. She founded a religious order in Greece, and ran an orphanage. orphanage, sometimes pawning trinkets from her royal past to support the order. She kept up many of her habits from before the religious life, to the puzzlement of many (including her mother, who famously commented, "What can you say of a nun who smokes and plays canasta?"). It was a capstone to a colorful life that included sheltering Jews from Nazis in Athens and being named as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
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* Averted in ''Series/CallTheMidwife''. The nuns of Nonnatus House all feel the religious life is their vocation; even [[spoiler:Sister Bernadette, who leaves the Order to get married, is incredibly conflicted, and it's possible she'll have some sort of relationship with the Order later on (potentially as a Third Order sister)]]. On the other hand, Chummy, a devout Anglican, seriously considers joining the Order when [[GrandeDame her mother]] tries to shoot down her plans to marry Constable Peter Noakes; she thinks better of it, and instead marries Peter and takes a six-month trip as a midwife-missionary in Sierra Leone.

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* Averted in ''Series/CallTheMidwife''. The nuns of Nonnatus House all feel the religious life is their vocation; even [[spoiler:Sister Bernadette, who leaves the Order to get married, is incredibly conflicted, and it's possible she'll have some sort of relationship with the Order later on (potentially as a Third Order sister)]]. On the other hand, Chummy, a devout Anglican, seriously considers joining the Order when [[GrandeDame her mother]] tries to shoot down her plans to marry Constable Peter Noakes; she thinks better of it, and instead marries Peter and takes a six-month trip as a midwife-missionary in Sierra Leone. On the other hand, [[spoiler:Cynthia]], who gave no particular indication of devoutness before this point, ends up coming to the conclusion that she was being called to the religious life, and ended up taking vows.
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* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' takes place in a Catholic school. It's shown in flashbacks that Sei's previous girlfriend left her to become a nun.

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* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' takes place in a Catholic school. It's shown in flashbacks that Sei's previous girlfriend left her to become a nun.
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* UsefulNotes/CaterinaDeMedici spent about four years immured in various convents as a hostage for the rebels that overthrew her family to use for leverage. Historical fictional accounts of her life usually portray her time in Santissima Annuziata delle Murate as the brightest spot in her turbulent life. (Some of those same accounts also say she briefly became a nun-or at least pretended to do so-to preserve her life after some of the rebels wanted her killed or raped, but that seems to be apocryphal.)
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* Of the three children who had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima visions of Mary at Fatima, Portugal]], only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_L%C3%BAcia Lucia]] survived into adulthood (Saints [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_and_Jacinta_Marto Francisco and Jacinta]] fell victim to UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu, ages 9 and 10). She was almost immediately popped into a school run by the Dorothean Sisters, and her name changed to Maria Dores, to keep pilgrims from hounding or venerating her. After graduation she chose to join the Dorotheans, later switching to the Discalced Carmelites, a very strict contemplative order, where she stayed until her death in 2005.

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* Of the three children who had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fátima visions of Mary at Fatima, Portugal]], only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_L%C3%BAcia org/wiki/Sister_Lúcia Lucia]] survived into adulthood (Saints [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_and_Jacinta_Marto Francisco and Jacinta]] fell victim to UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu, ages 9 and 10). She was almost immediately popped into a school run by the Dorothean Sisters, and her name changed to Maria Dores, to keep pilgrims from hounding or venerating her. After graduation she chose to join the Dorotheans, later switching to the Discalced Carmelites, a very strict contemplative order, where she stayed until her death in 2005.
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* In ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'', [[TheDragon Igam]] [[spoiler:is revealed to be a woman and in fact the lost princess of the good Tube kingdom before it was corrupted by the current ruler Zeba and she was basically tricked into servitude. Once she pieces things together, she turns against Zeba and helped the Maskman take it down. In the end, her history of serving Zeba still remained, so to make up for that, she became a nun and wandered the underground labyrinth of Tube [[TheAtoner to atone for her time as Zeba's general.]]]]

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* In ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'', [[TheDragon Igam]] [[spoiler:is revealed to be a woman and in fact the lost princess of the good Tube kingdom before it was corrupted by the current ruler Zeba and she was basically tricked into servitude. Once she pieces pieced things together, she turns turned against Zeba and helped the Maskman take it down. In the end, her history of serving Zeba still remained, so to make up for that, she became a nun and wandered the underground labyrinth of Tube [[TheAtoner to atone for her time as Zeba's general.]]]]
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* In ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'', [[TheDragon Igam]] [[spoiler:is revealed to be a woman and in fact the lost princess of the good Tube kingdom before it was corrupted by the current ruler Zeba and she was basically tricked into servitude. Once she pieces things together, she turns against Zeba and helped the Maskman take it down. In the end, her history of serving Zeba still remained, so to make up for that, she became a nun and wandered the underground labyrinth of Tube [[TheAtoner to atone for her time as Zeba's general.]]]]
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* Satoko from ''Manga/TheLegendOfMotherSarah'' is a mix between "Vocation" and "Retirement". In a CyberPunk world placed AfterTheEnd and where women [[MenAreTheExpendableGender are not given any protection at all]] from the violent skirmishes between the two opposing military dictatorships Mother Earth and Epoch, a young female war orphan has few choices to escape from certain death or {{Sex Slave}}ry followed by death. Thus, Satoko chose to TurnToReligion as a crutch to put up with the atrocities she has to face day after day and also to remain ''somewhat'' spared since she looks after younger war orphans and works as a war nurse. But, as she finds out later, even this is not enough and her [[NunTooHoly Mother Superior]] makes sure [[SexForServices Satoko and the other nuns understand this thoroughly]].
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* Actress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Hart Dolores Hart]], who had been in 10 films in the late 1950's and early 1960's (making her debut with Music/ElvisPresley), surprised many fans when she left her acting career to become a Benedictine nun in 1963.
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* Of the three children who had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima visions of Mary at Fatima, Portugal]], only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_L%C3%BAcia Lucia]] survived into adulthood (Saints [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_and_Jacinta_Marto Francisco and Jacinta]] fell victim to the Spanish Flu, ages 9 and 10). She was almost immediately popped into a school run by the Dorothean Sisters, and her name changed to Maria Dores, to keep pilgrims from hounding or venerating her. After graduation she chose to join the Dorotheans, later switching to the Discalced Carmelites, a very strict contemplative order, where she stayed until her death in 2005.

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* Of the three children who had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima visions of Mary at Fatima, Portugal]], only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_L%C3%BAcia Lucia]] survived into adulthood (Saints [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_and_Jacinta_Marto Francisco and Jacinta]] fell victim to the Spanish Flu, UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu, ages 9 and 10). She was almost immediately popped into a school run by the Dorothean Sisters, and her name changed to Maria Dores, to keep pilgrims from hounding or venerating her. After graduation she chose to join the Dorotheans, later switching to the Discalced Carmelites, a very strict contemplative order, where she stayed until her death in 2005.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. The detectives learn that a nun was involved in a hate crime several years earlier and joined a convent in order to atone for what she did. She promises to turn herself in if/when the victim ultimately dies from his injuries.
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* One of [[UsefulNotes/JulieDAubigny Julie d'Aubigny's]] lovers was sent away to a convent by her parents (due to homosexuality being frowned upon at the time). Julie entered the convenant and faked her lover's death before running away wtih her.
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* ''ComicBook/BatLash'': After their parents are killed, Bat stashes his sister Melissa in a convent for safety while he embarks on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. When he returns for her after he has killed the men responsible, he finds that she has decided to take vows and stay in the convent rather than return to the farm with him.
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* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' takes place in a Catholic school. It's shown in flashbacks that Sei's previous girlfriend left her to become a nun.
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* A post-release ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' update allowed "secret" alternate routes for boss fights based on certain actions. In "Sally Stageplay", is is actually possible to ''kill'' the actor playing her husband, leading to Sally becoming a nun and the next stage taking place at a nunnery instead of a suburban household.

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