On 11 August 1676, a 31-year-old nun was found on the floor of her convent cell, her face doused in ink, clutching a note scrawled in an unintelligible mix of symbols and letters. The sister ...

The letter [Photo: Courtesy] The letter is said ... He explained: "I personally believe that the nun had a good command of languages, which allowed her to invent the code, and may have suffered ...

An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, being the ...