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Three elderly nuns in Austria have returned to their former convent after leaving a Catholic care home where they say they were placed against their will. With the help of former students and a locksmith, the women broke into the building, restored basic utilities and are now refusing to leave.

The nuns, aged 82 to 88, were the last remaining members of the Kloster Goldenstein community in Elsbethen, a town near the city of Salzburg in Austria’s Salzburg state, before the convent was officially dissolved in early 2024.

The building, a castle that had served as a girls’ private school and religious community since 1877, was taken over by the Archdiocese of Salzburg and the Reichersberg Abbey in 2022, according to The Telegraph .

Sister Bernadette, 88, who first entered the

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