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Spanish
nun expelled for spending excess time on Facebook
Saturday February 19, 2011 06:35:40 PM,
IANS
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London: A nun who has
lived in a convent in Spain for over 35 years, has now been asked
to leave after she was found to be "spending too much time" on
social networking website Facebook.
Sister Maria Jesus Galan - dubbed "Sister Internet" by her fellow
nuns - wrote on her Facebook page that she has been asked to leave
the convent after disagreements over her online activities, the
Daily Telegraph reported.
The 54-year old nun of the 14th century Santo Domingo el Real
convent in Toledo, who lists her hobbies as "reading, music, art,
and making friends" has around 600 Facebook "friends", and now has
fan pages with thousands of supporters from around the globe
calling for her to be allowed back into the order.
A computer was first brought onto the premises 10 years ago after
the Mother Superior was persuaded it would lessen the need for
nuns to enter the outside world.
"It enabled us do things such as banking online and saved us
having to make trips into the city," explained Maria, who entered
as a novice at the age of 21.
The nun soon began digitising the archives contained within the
convent and made them accessible to the world. In 2008, she won a
government prize for her painstaking work of scanning the pages of
precious texts held in the convent's library.
The award made headlines and she soon had scores of friends
worldwide connecting through her Facebook page.
But her fellow nuns disapproved of her cyber activity.
The archbishop of Toledo said it was "an internal matter".
Sister Maria, who is now living at her mother's house, said she
was ready to embark on a new chapter in her life. "I would like to
visit London and New York," she posted on her page. "Such things
were impossible to even dream when at the convent."
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