Sister Bridget Liguori: The story of Wagga's runaway nun

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Updated June 20 2021 - 7:47am, first published June 14 2021 - 8:00pm
Sister Bridget Liguori (inset) escaped from Wagga's Mount Erin Convent in July 1920. Picture: CSU Archives
Sister Bridget Liguori (inset) escaped from Wagga's Mount Erin Convent in July 1920. Picture: CSU Archives

On July 24th 1920, a barefoot young nun clad only in a nightgown slipped out of Wagga's Mount Erin Convent and ran through the frosty night, straight into a national scandal.

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