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  • With Last Nuns Gone, Empty Barrington Monastery Is On The Market for $3.5M [Rhode Island]

    06/16/2021 6:30:18 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 10 replies
    WPRI Channel 12 ^ | 6/15/21 | Ted Nesi
    BARRINGTON, R.I. (WPRI) — A former monastery left vacant when the last nuns moved out has gone on the market for over $3 million, and now Barrington officials are seeking to buy the property. With their numbers dwindling, the final six Roman Catholic sisters of the Discalced Carmelite order last year decided to vacate the location on Watson Avenue where they had lived a cloistered life of prayer since 1957. “It’s really the only option available to us at this time,” one of the six, Sister Sue Lamb, told the Rhode Island Catholic in October. “We’ve lost about 14 sisters...