Women's life in church was like outside women lives, divided in two parts, nuns who had a wealthy backgroung before becoming nuns were treated differently and given the lighter work to do. On the side of the church, women who were poor before becoming nuns were made to perform hard manual work, such as tending fields, cleaning and maintaining the grounds and so on. Even though some of them had a difficult time because they entered the convent due to parents imposing it on them. To become a nun was a way of symbolizing a marriage to God instead of a regular man. This was a way of pay for their original sin. Widows also entered to convent; some of them broke their vote of poverty, abstinence, this was a concequence of entering to the convent without vocation.
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