5 Nuns Who Could Kick Your Ass

Forget about saints — here are 5 nuns who could kick your ass (according to Cracked):

  1. Carol Gilbert, Ardeth Platte and Jackie Hudson, peace activists who ended up on Maryland State Police’s list of terrorists and were sentenced to a total of nine years in federal prison. They broke into a nuclear missile facility and hit the warheads with hammers and painted crosses on them with their own blood. OMFG.
  2. The Nuns of Rutino, Italy who kicked a restaurant owner in the stomach.
  3. Odette de Pougy who stood up to the Pope in 1265 and hired mercenaries to keep him from building a church on the abbey’s property.
  4. Catalina de Erauso dressed in drag as a teen and “hustled, killed, maimed, and wreaked havoc.” Then she joined the army as a dude and was finally discovered when she almost died in battle. She became a nun and was granted permission to wear men’s clothing.
  5. Theodosia of Constantinople and her nuns killed two men who tried to remove icons from her church.

You know, Catholic school would have been a lot more interesting if they would have mixed these stories in.

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12 Responses to 5 Nuns Who Could Kick Your Ass

  1. J.C. says:

    It would have.

  2. Twin-Skies says:

    Only one group comes to mind I’m afraid…

    Adeptus Sororitas. Fictional, but badass :)

  3. Twin-Skies says:

    I recall there is also a trend in anime for “Nuns with Guns.”

    Eda from Black Lagoon
    Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade
    Erica Fontaine from Sakura Taisen

  4. DarkMatter says:

    Saint Agnes Blannbekin who tasted the forskin of Jesus about 100 times.

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