The 2018 film The Nun (titled The Nun - La vocazione del male in Italy) serves as a dark origin story within The Conjuring Universe. It trades the domestic suburban horror of the main series for a claustrophobic, Gothic atmosphere set in 1952 Romania.

It is the earliest chapter in the franchise's chronology.

Sister Irene is played by Taissa Farmiga, the real-life sister of Vera Farmiga (Lorraine Warren).

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The Vatican sends Father Burke, a miracle-hunter, and Sister Irene, a novice.