Photos: Fight over a former convent

The view from the former convent is spectacular.

There are competing sales of the villa-style former convent in Los Feliz.

Sister Catherine Rose, 86, left, and Sister Rita Callanan, 77, are fighting with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles over the sale of their former convent.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Sister Rita Callanan, 77, left, and restaurateur Dana Hollister walk inside the main room of a villa at the former convent in Los Feliz.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

“We have given many years to this archdiocese and we have served them well,” says Sister Rita Callanan, 77. “For the archdiocese to ... put us under a bus and run over us, I’m sorry, it was just too much for me.”