{"id":420600,"date":"2025-09-13T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420600\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:14:09","slug":"defiant-nuns-flee-austrian-care-home-for-their-abandoned-convent-in-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420600\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three nuns are settling back in to their former home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Electricity and water connections have now been partially restored, supporters are bringing food and groceries, and they have been seen by doctors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a steady stream of visitors, many of whom are their former students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of them, Sophie Tauscher, said the nuns belong at the convent. &#8220;Goldenstein without the nuns is just not possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When they need us, they just have to call us and we will be there, for sure. The nuns here changed so many lives in such a good way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alisha, another student said the nuns always recognised old pupils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Videos of the nuns have been posted on Instagram, at prayer, at Mass, at lunch and climbing down the steep staircase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They say their old stairlift was ripped out after they were taken away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The nuns say they are determined to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Before I die in that old people&#8217;s home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way,&#8221; said Sister Bernadette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three nuns are settling back in to their former home. Electricity and water connections have now been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-420600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115195993540797418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}