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In Austria in September 2025, three nuns carried out a divine plan and escaped from a Catholic nursing home, where they had been evicted against their will and without warning. Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita fled to the Alps, to their monastery, with the help of caring people and cryptocurrency. All three worked as teachers in a municipal school.
Despite their advanced age and infrastructure challenges, the nuns demonstrate determination and faith that cannot be broken by any administrative decisions. Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita insist that they want to remain within those walls, where every corner reminds them of their past lives. They hope that eventually their right to lifetime residence will be recognised without question and that the old monastery will once again begin to welcome visitors. They note that the community has since been regularly checking on the nuns' psychological and physical condition and providing them with care, although the issue of the crypt remains unresolved.
88-year-old Sister Bernadette, 86-year-old Sister Regina and 82-year-old Sister Rita have spent most of their lives in the monastery. Over time, the number of nuns in the monastery began to decline, and in early 2024, the monastic community was completely dissolved, although the remaining nuns were granted lifetime residency rights, provided that their health and mental abilities allowed it.
According to the nuns themselves, they drew strength and inspiration from a small book in a worn leather binding, which they read every time they prayed. At the first stage, they were helped by former students, who opened the entrance gate and organised transport for them. Shortly before their escape, Brother Benedict secretly sent the password to the crypto wallet.
As the searchers later discovered, one of the nuns, while still a student at the local university, had worked as a cartographer. It was she who developed a detailed escape plan. This is evidenced by the marks on Google Maps found on her phone. In addition, part of the seed phrase was found in an email in her mailbox. It was later discovered that each of them had only a third of the seed phrase. When the sisters found themselves outside the gates of the old monastery and the three parts of the phrase were combined, the cryptocurrency allowed them to pay for the driver's services and purchase the necessary supplies and medicines.
Representatives of the diocese are currently refraining from commenting on the financial aspects of the escape. However, the very fact that cryptocurrency is circulating among the clergy has already caused a public outcry and raised new questions about the transparency of church funds. After all, there are many known cases where parishioners' funds and state grants have been used for risky investments in cryptocurrency. Recently, a trial ended against a parish priest from Legnica Pole, who used parishioners' funds to invest in cryptocurrency. In July 2022, he embezzled 1.214 million zlotys allocated for the renovation of the basilica and church, and then transferred part of these funds to the account of a foreign company that promised profits from investments in Bitcoin.
For many parishioners, the story of their escape became a real lesson in the power of spirituality, the solidarity of disciples, and the possibilities of crypto even in the most remote corners of the Alps.
