Three nuns in their 80s who broke out of an old people’s home have been granted their wish to return to their abandoned convent in the Austrian Alps.

Sisters Bernadette, 88, Regina, 86, and Rita, 82, escaped from the aged home they were placed in when they were removed from their convent in Elsbethen, near Salzburg, in December 2023.

They staged an audacious break-in at their beloved Kloster Goldenstein convent in September this year with the help of a locksmith and their former students.

The trio became social media sensations as their plight captured attention around the world.

Church authorities finally relented and said they could go back to the nunnery — but they would have to stop posting on social media.

The Goldenstein nuns have more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, where they post about their daily lives, including sister ‘Rocky Rita’s’ boxing workouts.

The church said they would be allowed to stay in their former convent “until further notice”.

The nuns released a statement confirming an agreement had been reached in principle, but they said they wanted their claims and needs to be taken seriously, the BBC reports.

They said the church’s offer had the “character of a gagging contract”.

The nuns’ superior, Provost Markus Grasl from Reichersberg Abbey, said their decision to return to the convent was “completely incomprehensible”.

The BBC reports that the three nuns have spent much of their lives at Goldenstein — a castle which has been a convent and a private girls’ school since 1877.