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- ↑ A Historical Directory of Communities of Dominican Nuns World-Wide Association of Sister Historians of the Order of Preachers. Fanjeaux, France, 2013
- ↑ Dominican life website 25 January 2016
- ↑ Rushdi, S. Step Across This Line. Random House, 2003.
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