1.   A nun prayed while trying to turn off her buzzing cell phone.

2.   By tradition, the nuns pray seven times a day as a group, spending the other hours in meditation, reading and household chores.

3.   Our Lady of Prompt Succor is the saint to whom the local Ursuline nuns prayed on behalf of Andrew Jackson before the Battle of New Orleans.

4.   The Carmelite nuns had been praying for her.

5.   Ibanez said the nuns had prayed and studied the Bible eight hours a day and worked in their vegetable garden.

6.   The nuns pray and study the Bible eight hours a day, and raise vegetables, for their own consumption and for sale.

7.   Today, the nuns pray communally seven times a day and spend two hours in private prayer.