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The Singing Nun, the Glossary

Jeanne-Paule Marie "Jeannine" Deckers (17 October 1933 – 29 March 1985), better known as Smiling Sister and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and a member of the Dominican Order in Belgium as Sister Luc Gabriel.^[1]

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1985 suicides
20th-century Belgian women singers
Belgian folk singers
Belgian guitarists
Belgian singer-songwriters
Belgian women guitarists
Belgian women singer-songwriters
Burials at Cheremont Cemetery
Dominican Sisters
Drug-related suicides in Belgium
Folk guitarists
Former Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns
French-language singers of Belgium
People from Laeken
Walloon musicians

Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Éliane Gubin

Éliane Gubin (born in 1942) is a Belgian historian, researcher and professor of political and social history, specializing in the history of women and feminism.

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Barbiturate

Barbiturates are a class of depressant drugs that are chemically derived from barbituric acid.

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Belgian French

Belgian French (français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais).

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Biographical novel

The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Catholic Charismatic Renewal

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) is a movement within the Catholic Church that is part of the wider charismatic movement across historic Christian churches.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic League (U.S.)

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to the Catholic League, is an American Catholic organization whose stated purpose is to "defend the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination." on the Catholic League's website The Catholic League states that it is "motivated by the letter and the spirit of the First Amendment...

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Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)

The Catholic University of Leuven or Louvain (Université catholique de Louvain, Katholieke Hogeschool te Leuven, later Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven) was founded in 1834 in Mechelen as the Catholic University of Belgium, and moved its seat to the town of Leuven in 1835, changing its name to Catholic University of Leuven.

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Cécile de France

Cécile de France (born 17 July 1975) is a Belgian actress.

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Chad Everett

Raymon Lee Cramton (June 11, 1937 – July 24, 2012), known professionally as Chad Everett, was an American actor who appeared in more than 40 films and television series.

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City of Brussels

The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region (from which it is separate) and Belgium.

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Convent

A convent is a community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters.

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Debbie Reynolds

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Dominique

"Dominique" is a 1963 French language popular song, written and performed by Belgian singer Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile" in French) or The Singing Nun.

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Ed Sullivan

Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Federal Public Service Finance

The FPS Finance (FOD Financiën, SPF Finances, FÖD Finanzen), is a Federal Public Service of Belgium.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Frischermont

Châteaux Frischermont or Fichermont in the Belgian municipality of Lasne is now a ruin (destroyed by fire in and demolished in 1965).

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British-American actress and singer.

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Grove Street Playhouse

The Grove Street Playhouse, also known during its existence as the Courtyard Playhouse, was an off-Broadway theatre located on Grove Street in the West Village.

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Guides Catholiques de Belgique

Guides Catholiques de Belgique (GCB) is the French speaking Catholic Girl Guiding movement in Belgium, open to all from age five since 1979.

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Henry Koster

Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director.

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Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American novelist and actress.

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Katharine Ross

Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940) See also.

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Laeken

italic or italic is a residential suburb in the north-western part of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.

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Legacy.com

Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998, the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.

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Leo Joseph Suenens

Leo Jozef Suenens (16 July 1904 – 6 May 1996) was a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Magritte Award for Best Costume Design

The Magritte Award for Best Costume Design (French: Magritte des meilleurs costumes) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux.

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New York Musical Theatre Festival

The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) was an annual event held each summer from 2004 to 2019 in New York City's midtown theater district.

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Noël Regney

Noël Regney (born Léon Schlienger; 19 August 1922 – 22 November 2002), was a French World War II veteran and songwriter who is best known for composing the Christmas standard "Do You Hear What I Hear?" with his then-wife Gloria Shayne Baker in 1962.

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Off-Broadway

An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Pâtisserie

A pâtisserie, patisserie in English or pastry shop in American English, is a type of bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Personality clash

A personality clash occurs when two (or more) people find themselves in conflict not over a particular issue or incident, but due to a fundamental incompatibility in their personalities, their approaches to things, or their style of life.

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Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label founded by Dutch electronics company Philips and Dutch-American music corporation Universal Music Group.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Province of Brabant

The Province of Brabant was a province in Belgium from 1830 to 1995.

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems.

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Religious congregation

A religious congregation is a type of religious institute in the Catholic Church.

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Religious music

Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.

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Retreat (spiritual)

The meaning of a spiritual retreat can be different for different religious communities.

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Ricardo Montalbán

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican and American film and television actor.

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Sally Benson

Sally Benson (née Sara Smith; September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre.

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Second Vatican Council

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

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Sister Smile (film)

Sister Smile (original title: Sœur Sourire) is a Belgian-French biographical drama film directed by Stijn Coninx and written by Coninx, Ariane Fert and Chris Vander Stappen.

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Stijn Coninx

Stijn, Baron Coninx (born 21 February 1957) is a Belgian film director.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Singing Nun (album)

The Singing Nun is the debut studio album by Belgian musician and nun The Singing Nun, released by Philips Records in 1963.

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The Singing Nun (film)

The Singing Nun is a 1966 American semi-biographical musical drama film about the life of Jeannine Deckers, the nun who recorded the chart-topping song "Dominique".

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Third Order of Saint Dominic

The Third Order of Saint Dominic (Tertius Ordo Praedicatorum; abbreviated TOP), also referred to as the Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic or Lay Dominicans since 1972, is a Catholic third order which is part of the Dominican Order.

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Waterloo, Belgium

Waterloo (Waterlô) is a municipality in Wallonia, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of.

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Wavre

Wavre (Waver,; Wåve) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, capital of the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Nun

Also known as Annie Pécher, Jeanine Decker, Jeanine Deckers, Jeanne Deckers, Luc Dominique, Singing Nun, Sister Luc Gabriel, Sister Smile, Soeur Sourire.

, Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Benson, Second Vatican Council, Sister Smile (film), Stijn Coninx, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Singing Nun (album), The Singing Nun (film), Third Order of Saint Dominic, Waterloo, Belgium, Wavre.

The Singing Nun, the Glossary

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See also

1985 suicides

20th-century Belgian women singers

Belgian folk singers

Belgian guitarists

Belgian singer-songwriters

Belgian women guitarists

Belgian women singer-songwriters

Burials at Cheremont Cemetery

Dominican Sisters

Folk guitarists

Former Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns

French-language singers of Belgium

People from Laeken

Walloon musicians

References