Nuns are members of a religious community of women, which are the female equivalent of male monastic orders. They leave mainstream society and choose to devote their lives to god and live in prayer. They live in convents.
Any age became nuns. Some children that were left at the nunneries never left and became nuns. Often older women would become nuns because they were sent there by husbands or they were left alone and the nunneries were safe places.
No. They were illegitimate and sent to a convent where they became nuns.
She founded an order of nuns that became known as the Poor Clares that worked with the poor.
Not the entire Catholic population became nuns and monks - only a small part.
No, she was not a Dominican. She founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of Charity of which she became the mother superior.
Catherine of Siena was not actually a nun. She became a Dominican tertiary at age 15.
Other nuns
Monks and nuns do the monks' and nuns' jobs now.
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Yes, nuns can vote.
It turns out that nuns eat anything.
The nuns sleep in the nunnery in the convent.