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    ON HOLY GROUND

    Sep 02, 2021 4 minutes
    Photography Kateryna Lebreton

    estled in Anjou in western France, the Benedictine nunnery of Martigné-Briand is a lush haven amid a landscape of rural and farmed land dotted with picturesque castles. Looking for a place of retreat far from Paris – somewhere peaceful to pray, rest and garden – I found myself here for one long and blissful summer. Popular imagination might see the convent’s guardians as austere, conservative, moralising old women, but instead I found the nuns to have an infectious spirit of joy, and alongside their Benedictine vows – ‘stability, fidelity to monastic life, and obedience’ – they loved to sing gentle songs, eat hearty meals and

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