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Little Sisters: Inside the Life of Russia's Child Nuns |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Lisa Nipp |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,463 Words, 8,871 Characters |
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But a young nun does notice. At thirteen, Sister Anna is only a few years older than the little girl, but she gracefully navigates through the pilgrims who crowd the church's floor and quickly extinguishes the candle. Gliding back across the room, Sister Anna rejoins a group of novices whose dark head scarves fail to hide youthful, ruddy faces. At the Tolga Convent, like other monasteries throughout Russia, young people make up the majority of new members.
"Two years ago there were almost no young people here, except for one or two, and since last year we've suddenly had a flow of young girls," explains Sister Natasha, twenty-five, a wood-carver who joined Tolga's sisterhood at the age of nineteen.
The reemergence of the Russian Orthodox Church in post-Soviet Russia has revived inter...
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...h places might as well be on the other side of the world.
Critics say that the young novices should experience more of life before devoting theirs to a convent, but older sisters like Natasha who have given part of their childhood to God disagree.
"I do not regret coming here and leaving the world. ... Here in the convent I have found everything that I need for a happy and normal life."
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