Nearly two years after they were declared to be in schism, the last of the Poor Clare sisters of Belorado have vacated their Church-owned convent.

A court had scheduled the eviction for 9.30am on Thursday, March 12, but the sisters left beforehand. The nuns had lost a series of court appeals against the Archdiocese of Burgos over their eviction and were left with little choice but to leave the property owned by the diocese, although the case will be considered further by the Supreme Court of Spain.