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Responsibilities for medieval nuns included:

  • spiritual advisors
  • ladies-in-waiting to Queens and Princesses, among other noblewomen
  • mortuary functions for Queens, princesses and noblewomen
  • medical duties, such asnurses in missionary hospitals
  • teachers
  • the usual churchly functions such as sacristan (supervisor of church housekeeping, specifically that of religious articles)
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