On 17 July 1944 at around 8 a.m., a Russian soldier rang the convent door.

The orator Edward Everett reminded his audience in 1853 that Columbus had once been forced to beg for bread at the convent doors of Spain.

They taught the young and opened their convent doors to the orphans and to the elderly.

Theresa yanked at the convent door; it wouldn't open.

Knocked on the convent door six months after she'd left.

The school has a close relationship with the convent next door who have a representative on the school's board of governors.

Late at night, as they lie in bed, they say, there is pounding on the locked convent doors with what sounds like the butts of rifles.

The youngest maunt was obliged to answer the convent door if the bell sounded during mealtime.

They thought much more of alighting at the convent door, and warming themselves at the convent fire.

He marched to the convent door that afternoon in tears and pleaded with Mother Superior that Sister Rita be allowed to remain with us.