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- ↑ "Our Monastery". Dominican Nuns | Corpus Christi Monastery. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ↑ McCarthy, Thomas P. (1 April 2002). Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, Fifth Edition. CUA Press. ISBN 9780813213125.
