Nuns on the run

[Ed W]

Why is it that I think this could be made into a wonderfully entertaining movie - Chicken Run - but with nuns!  Of course, that was a parody based on the Great Escape, so we'd have scene of nuns tunneling under the convent walls, evading the Mother Superior and her guards, and an exciting motorcycle pursuit with a nun's habit flapping in the breeze.

Just a thought.



Sister Marie-Daniel, 86, and Sister Saint-Denis, 82, fled their nunnery two weeks ago after convent officials said they were being sent to a remote mountain retreat 250 miles away.

The pair vanished from the Sisters of Saint-Joseph convent in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the French Riviera convent, on July 12 and have not been seen since.

A third 89-year-old nun, Sister Maurice-Marie, has revealed she also wanted to flee but broke her leg four days before the two elderly sisters disappeared.

A convent insider had told France-Soir newspaper that the nuns were furious at being "put out to grass" in a retirement home after 50 years at the nunnery.

They said: "They decided they wanted to jump before they were pushed.

"They would rather take their chances out in the world than have to live out their days in some far away rest home."

Sister Colette Philibert, the region's chief nun, said: "All we want is for our two dear sisters to make contact with us and return to the convent."

[DolfanBob]

Is it a breach of contract for the nuns to runaway ? I mean they are free to leave anytime they want right ?
Did they break God's Law or a man made Law ?

[Ed W]

Maybe they broke Sharia law, but then again, they're in France so who knows?