A smiling nun.

Vintage Nuns & Sisters - An album for "old habits"!

Among Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy's albums



  • Nuns in the garden - 1963


  • Nun with an eye patch

    Sister Rogerina de Salles-Torquemada was reputed to have lost her left eye in a fight with a Jehovah's Witness who came calling at her convent. Observent viewers will recognise this delightful lady, but I thought it might be fun to include the original…

  • The Nuns' picnic

    What a scrumptious cake it looks - no doubt full of wombat creme and aardvark molasses! Yum, yum.


  • A smiling nun.

    A welcome THIRD appearance, to some of you. of my Dear Sisters! How I adored this habit of the "Daughters of Charity" . . .so much more elegant than the contemporary unform.

  • Sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart holding a koala - early 1960s


  • Nuns playing baseball



  • Nun with parrot

    Sister Gertrude Saxifraga, O.S.B., had been a female pirate before entering the convent, but had been allowed to keep her parrot. . . how kind of the Reverend Mother!

  • Nuns at dinner - circa 1960s

    The young man looks decidedly embarrassed (he'd probably committed the sin of Onan earlier in the morning), while the girl seems mesmerised by the two Sisters. The woman facing us on the left of picture just wished the two nuns had chosen another table.…

  • Nuns playing basketball - possibly Australia, 1960s



  • Nun and Chilean Navy sailors - 1962

    The Chilean Navy, tired of complaints about the endemic pornography in circulation among its sailors, instituted the "Nun in Residence" scheme, in association with the Santiago Arts Council. Here we see Sister Maria de los Galapagos showing some crew mem…

  • Armed Sisters

    An amusing photograph, now freely available most everywhere.

  • Nuns in blue habits . . .



  • Nuns and chickens


  • Visitation Nun - Washington, D.C., circa 1942


  • Polish nun - circa 1950s



  • Nuns and bees

    Comments from the last occasion this was posted:- Mr. Rubber Ducky: So what's to keep them from being stung on the arms and hands? Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy: Faith, Mr. Rubber Ducky, Faith! Phreddy [deleted]: Faith and good habits.

  • Happy splashy nuns


  • Three nuns and group of orphanage children attending a circus - USA, circa 1950s