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Austrian nuns Sister Rita, Sister Bernadette and Sister Regina broke out of their Catholic retirement home where they were placed and returned to their old convent

The nuns' former students helped bring them back to the convent

“We remain in this convent until our death,” said Sister Bernadette, one of the nuns

A trio of elderly Catholic nuns are happy to return to their former convent in Austria after breaking out of a retirement home.

"I am so pleased to be home," Sister Rita, 82, told the BBC of being back at the Kloster Goldenstein convent in Elsbethen, which is located outside of Salzburg. "I was always homesick at the care home. I am so happy and thankful to be back."

Sister Rita, Sister Bernadette, 88, and Sister Regina, 86, all of whom served as teachers, are t

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