Gloria Casper vividly remembers being trundled off to the Audy home, a juvenile detention center in Chicago, in a paddy wagon with white bars . Fortunately, Casper also has many happy childhood mem… ...

She once saw a nun figurine in a catalog representing the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, the order that ran the orphanage where Gasper grew up. But the figurine was $179.

These recollections have inspired her to collect more than 100 nun figurines. ... She has nuns singing, nuns jamming on musical instruments, nuns tending to babies or the sick, ...

Measuring from about an inch to 22 inches tall, nun figurines and dolls, plus pictures and other nun-related memorabilia, fill any suitable void or shelf or corner of her spacious home.

She lived in cottages, each overseen by a nun who had charge of about 40 children. "It became like a family in the cottage," Casper said. "When you knew a kid from your cottage, you'd stick up for ...

They play basketball, pingpong, golf, tennis, softball, the guitar, the violin and even the accordion. They sing, teach, nurse puppies and cats. And they pray. They are nuns, after all. But these ...

To most of the rest of the world, California is strange enough all by itself. But throw in an avant-garde artist and a dollop of wine, and man, you've got trouble. "Artists. California. Alcohol ...

The 40-year-old Borová artist has hand-sculpted a dozen 1.2-metre-tall immigrant figurines for the clock. They include a Roman Catholic nun, a miner, a meatcutter, a farmer, a Sokol acrobat, a ...

Brenda Query and her family visited her great-aunt, Sister Aubrey, who was a Catholic nun, a Sister of Charity. After their visit, Sister Aubrey gave little Brenda a statue of St. Catherine.

Born Berta Hummel in 1909, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel was both an artist and a nun from the Third Order of St. Francis. In 1933, Hummel and her fellow sisters of the Convent of Siessen staged ...