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Who were the first nuns?

Monasticism means a way of life devoted to religion. A male monastery is a building in which men who have taken a religious vow live. These men are usually monks, but priests and members of a religious brotherhood may also live in monasteries. A convent is a building in which women who have taken a religious vow live. These women are called nuns.

Monasticism was practiced long before Christian times. Groups of Jews lived in communities and ran their households. Christian monasticism began in Egypt in the third century AD. Groups of men left society in order to lead a solitary life and pray. Religious groups of women have also existed since very ancient times. But some people believe that women's monasteries were organized before men's. In the history of Christianity, when an order of monks arose, religious women's societies always appeared.

Most religious women's societies are governed by the charter of St. Augustine or St. Francis. Nuns take vows in the same way as monks. They live in nunneries, each of which has its own form of clothing.

Until the seventeenth century, nuns usually remained in monasteries and spent their lives in prayer. But since that time, many societies of nuns began to work in schools, hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes.

Author: Likum A.

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