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Nuns rejoice

Saturday 16 April 1994 23:02 BST
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FIVE nuns at the oldest convent in England, the Bar Convent in York, rejoiced after learning that one of their paintings, The Crucifixion by the 17th-century French artist Eustache Le Sueur, could fetch pounds 500,000 at auction, safeguarding their threatened home.

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