These nuns were on the run.

A trio of Austrian octogenarian nuns — who have their own Instagram account with over 78,000 followers — ran away from their nursing home to get back to their convent.

Sister Rita, 82, Sister Regina, 86, and Sister Bernadette, 88, were transferred to the home in December 2023 against their will when church officials closed the convent, named Schloss Goldenstein, due to the decrease in vocations to the sisterhood.

“We weren’t asked,” Sister Bernadette told the BBC .

“We had the right to stay here until the end of our lives and that was broken … I have been obedient all my life, but it was too much.”

A former student and a local locksmith helped the sisters escape, unbeknownst to their supervisor, Provost Markus Grasl of Reichersberg Abbey, who isn’t ha

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