1.   Cistercian houses were related in filiations and were subject to visitation by the abbot of the mother house.

2.   On Monday, grim-faced nuns filed in and out of the mother house in the neighborhood of Turgeau.

3.   One of them is Sister Jane Belanger, a Dominican nun whose mother house is St. Mary of the Springs in the corridor halfway between Easton and downtown.

4.   The wine is elegant and light bodied, though perhaps not as delicate as the wine from the mother house in Rheims, France.

5.   Vincent was shot to death Sunday night just outside the gate of the Montfortin mother house by unidentified men in an open jeep.