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What are count nuns?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

You may be referring to Court Nuns. In Monarchist countries that happened to be Catholic- Austria, pre-Revolutionary France, Spain, Italy, there were Court Nuns who were essentially a hybrid of Ladies-In-Waiting and nursing sisters. They were members of religious orders. Among other duties they attended to the funeral arrangements of Royal Women, as was the case of Queen Margherita of Italy who was essentially laid out by four nuns, instead of nurses or regular Palace Dames, as the Italian equivalent went. These sisters were of necessity Nursing Sisters, it is not known what order they belonged to. They had other religious and ceremonial tasks at the Palaces. Of course, there were Lay ( non-religious) Ladies in waiting also- called Palace Dames in Italy and Germany ( Hofdamen).

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13y ago

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