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From Elvis to the cloister

MOTHER DELORES HART
Aleteia Image Department - published on 11/11/17

Photo of the Day: November 11, 2017Mother Dolores Hart pets a cat at the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Mother Dolores, a cloistered nun, was once an actress whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen movie kiss. She walked away from Hollywood stardom in 1963 to become a nun in rural Bethlehem, but this time it’s all about serving the King of Kings, not the King of Rock and Roll.

Photograph by Jessica Hill for the Associated Press

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