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His fiancée did not learn of it for some time, and she eventually took the veil, becoming a Dominican nun at a convent in Monterey — California’s first native-born Catholic sister.

He’s even better as Irish coal-seller Bill Furlong, another man forced to fight his conscience when he discovers that his local convent doubles as a labor camp for unwed moms.

The current owner acquired Lock House in 2003 from a property trader, who had previously purchased it after the convent relocated to Albourne.

The most fascinating is the complex compositional analysis of the figures in Leonardo’s second most famous painting, “The Last Supper,” that vast fresco in a communal dining room of a Dominican convent in Milan.

“The root of it is still quite traditional and patriarchal in that these powerful women have to be sequestered from men and are essentially living in a convent,” Williams says.