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settled from the start in the cities, or in the suburbs thereof, preferably in the poorer and more densely populated districts. They therefore had to adapt their buildings to these new constraints.

Mary Kenny noted in a 2004 article that as a result of the "renewal and adaptation of religious life" instituted by the Second Vatican Council, many religious sisters no longer live in "convents" but in smaller communities or even alone.