A trio of nuns have defied church officials by staging an escape from their care home and breaking back into the convent they had been forced to leave.
Sisters Bernadette, 88, Regina, 86, and Rita, 82, had all taught at the convent and girls' school for more than six decades.
But they were evicted when it was taken over and closed by an Augustinian monastery – despite being promised lifelong residency.
Now, in a story worthy of Hollywood, a group of former students have helped them leave their appointed Catholic retirement home to return to the castle.
Assisted by a locksmith, they gained entry to their old apartments at the Kloster Goldenstein school and convent in Elsbethen, near Salzburg, Austria.
