Set in an ancient Spanish convent, Manoel de Oliveira's metaphysical mystery film tries to figure which of its intriguing characters is the devil.

Set in an ancient Spanish convent, the film is an X-ray into the morality of a bourgeois married couple who find themselves on territory designated "sacred space."

Later, about the 11th century, it starts to be defined as a Leonese territory that corresponds in general terms to the southern territory of the ancient convent.

To emphasize is also the presence of a parish and an ancient convent, now desecrated, situated outside the locality.

She was the Abbess of Fontevraud, the ancient and wealthy convent in Anjou.

The ancient convent is listed as a Monument historique since 1930 by the French Ministry of Culture.

This was the Chapel of St Fyndoca, and, perhaps, the remains of an ancient small convent or nunnery, though there is some dispute about its existence.

It constituted an important part of an ancient convent that originally belonged to the Celestine order and which passed to the Dominican fathers after 1498.

The chronicles of this ancient convent are being published, and two very interesting volumes have already appeared.

Reverend Mother Betina, head of the ancient Cistercian convent.