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McCormack/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765701\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765701\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/17GettyImages-1216802815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" /> Augustinian nuns of San Leandro convent, make face masks and health coats instead of their traditional convent cakes called Yemas de San Leandro on April 04, 2020 in Seville, Spain. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765702\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765702\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/18GettyImages-1174423804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /> Nuns from the Order of the Congregation of Mary Annunciation clear up leaves as they help clean their convent on October 07, 2019 in Nagasaki, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765703\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765703\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/19GettyImages-3311116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" /> Circa 1937: A Sister of Mercy nun pushing six babies in a six-seater pram along Clacton Promenade. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765704\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765704\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/20GettyImages-56194391.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" /> Sister Mary Thomas (right), an administrator at St Elizabeth's Hospital, convinces another nun of the convenience of an electric scooter, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765706\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765706\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/21GettyImages-82580648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" /> Nun, and golf coach, Sister Mary Martina takes an iron shot on the golf course at Rosebud Country Club, Portsea, Victoria, Australia, 6th September 1965. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765708\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"2560\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765708\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/22GettyImages-55723782-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1972\" /> A group of nuns play basketball outdoors at the Ladywell Convent, Godalming, England, August 2, 1965. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765710\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765710\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/24GettyImages-1174423762.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /> Nuns from the Order of the Congregation of Mary Annunciation hold out their arms out as they prays at a chapel in their convent on October 07, 2019 in Nagasaki, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_765711\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-765711\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/25GettyImages-456203284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /> Nuns play music as they wait for the start of the beatification ceremony for Opus Dei former leader Alvaro del Portillo on September 27, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. 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Nuns wear protective face masks as they take part in a collective mass on Krakow's UNESCO listed Main Square during the Catholic holiday Corpus Christi on June 11, 2020 in Krakow, Poland. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
Nuns exercising in the nunnery grounds keep their faces hidden in cowled habits. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Nuns run to get a position to hear Pope Francis deliver Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square on March 24, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Tibetan nuns eat their lunch and socialize at the Keydong Thuk-Che Choling Monastery on May 19, 2003 in Kathmandu, Nepal. 88 nuns live in the nunnery school in a Tibetan neighborhood of the city. Buddhist nuns face the same discrimination that affects all women in Nepal. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
25th July 1960: Three nuns in an empty auditorium surrounding an open-air altar on the Munich Theresienwiese where the 1960 Eucharistic World Congress will start. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
A nun ascends a flight of steps as pilgrims from around the world descend on Vatican City in preparation for Easter Sunday Mass March 26, 2005 in Vatican City. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Nuns walk into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception ahead of the funeral for Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia February 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A Nun wearing a bin liner to protect her from the pouring rain walks along the South Bank on August 9, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Nuns wait for a Angelus prayer with Pope Benedict XVI in front of Brixen Cathedral on August 3, 2008 in Brixen, Italy. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
Michele White joins a demonstration sponsored by the National Coalition of American Nuns outside Holy Name Cathedral April 18, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Supporters of President Donald Trump, two nuns included await his arrival at a Keep America Great rally on February 20, 2020 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Nuns attend the canonization of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII held by Pope Francis in Saint Peter's Square on April 27, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
A Catholic nun stands near the Cathedral of Brasilia while celebrating the holiday of Corpus Christi on June 4, 2015 in Brasilia, Brazil. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
A nun rides a float during a march for peace near the U.S./Mexico border on March 11, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana suffered a record 1,744 homicides in 2017 mostly due to drug gang turf battles. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
South Korean nuns help other women make 'kimchi', a traditional pungent vegetable dish, which is donated to the poor in preparation for winter on November 9, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
South Korean nuns look over the North Korea at the Imjingak observation post, near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 12, 2018 in Paju, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
Catholic nuns open pop-up Shoreditch restaurant 'NUNdos' offering 'food for the soul' at White Rabbit on October 17, 2017 in London, England. The pop-up shop which is the world's nun-powered eatery is opening up to coincide with the launch of new Channel 5 series 'Bad Habits, Holy Orders'. (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)
Augustinian nuns of San Leandro convent, make face masks and health coats instead of their traditional convent cakes called Yemas de San Leandro on April 04, 2020 in Seville, Spain. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Getty Images)
Nuns from the Order of the Congregation of Mary Annunciation clear up leaves as they help clean their convent on October 07, 2019 in Nagasaki, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Circa 1937: A Sister of Mercy nun pushing six babies in a six-seater pram along Clacton Promenade. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Sister Mary Thomas (right), an administrator at St Elizabeth's Hospital, convinces another nun of the convenience of an electric scooter, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Nun, and golf coach, Sister Mary Martina takes an iron shot on the golf course at Rosebud Country Club, Portsea, Victoria, Australia, 6th September 1965. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A group of nuns play basketball outdoors at the Ladywell Convent, Godalming, England, August 2, 1965. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)
Nuns from the Order of the Congregation of Mary Annunciation hold out their arms out as they prays at a chapel in their convent on October 07, 2019 in Nagasaki, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Nuns play music as they wait for the start of the beatification ceremony for Opus Dei former leader Alvaro del Portillo on September 27, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
The nuns practices horn in the Tiantai Temple on November 22, 2018 in Hongan, Hubei province, China.Monks of Tiantai Temple are proficient not only in Buddha dharma but also in orchestral instruments. (Photo by Wang He/Getty Images)
A member of the Sisterhood of the Good Death prays after marching in a procession during the Festival of the Good Death on August 14, 2014 in Cachoeira, Brazil. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Catholic nuns descend to pray in the Grotto under the Church of the Nativity, where according to tradition Jesus was born, December 23, 2007 in Bethlehem in the West Bank. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
Nuns worship following a Mass for the Election of a New Pope at Saint Patrick's Cathedral on February 28, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
An Orthodox nun holds a cross while praying at a funeral service for Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic on November 1, 2020 in Podgorica, Montenegro. (Photo by Filip Filipovic/Getty Images)
A nun prays at religious mass for the victims of the blast at St Sebastian's Church on April 23, 2019 in Negombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Atul Loke/Getty Images)