There's little we know about the Blood Saints of the Healing Church, two of whom we meet in the game: Adella and Adeline. Although they're called "nuns," these figures fit within the game's medical metaphor quite easily. They're the nurses of Bloodborne. They're subordinate to the doctor-like Church hunters, they're all female, they're called "Sisters" and they give the player-character blood, an act that for hundreds of years was a symbol of religious charity that later became synonymous with nursing.

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References:

Beran, Emily. “The Pelican in Her Piety.” Kenneth Spencer Research Library Blog, 2017. https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...

Caparelli, Jamie Lynn. “Nursing Nuns: A History of Caring—And Changing the Course of Health Care.” American Journal of Nursing, 105, no. 8 (2005): 72.

Dinan, Susan E. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth Century France. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.

Nelson, Siabon. Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Saunders, William. “The Symbolism of the Pelican.” Catholic Education Resource Center, 2003.

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