Augustines Soeurs Noires

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The Augustines Soeurs Noires formed a Roman Catholic community of sisters, which, like so many others, was founded in a time of boom and would not survive the next century.

On July 16, 1833, two Soeurs Noires de Louvain (lions) arrived in Tournai and founded a new congregation of episcopal law here . The sisters, who came at the request of the bishop and performed their duties in the municipal hospital Notre-Dame, settled in a house on the rue des Carmes. It seemed as if the young congregation had good chances for the future, because the first seven postulants registered as early as September and October, and they were dressed in the parish church of St. James on January 7, 1834. In November 1839 the small community moved into a new house on Rue Notre-Dame, which was directly opposite the hospital. Right from the start of its work, the community was divided into two convents , one of which lived in the hospital, the other in the mother house. After the sisters had aggregated into the Augustinian order on March 7, 1928 , it became clear during the Second World War that the congregation, which was never very numerous, could hardly continue to exist independently in the future, so that the bishop assigned it to another congregation sought to unite. The sisters successfully fended off this venture. In 1968 there were still nine sisters living in the two abovementioned convents, but the congregation died out in the next few years. The last sister left the monastery in 1986.