Benedictine Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament

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The Maria-Hilf monastery in Bonn-Endenich, founded in 1888 by the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament or, for short, Benedictine Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament ( Latin: Benedictinae ab adoratione perpetua Sanctissimi Sacramenti ), Sigel OSBap , are a monastic Roman Catholic religious order . The institute was founded by the French Benedictine Mechtilde de Bar (1614–1698) in Paris in 1653 and was initially called Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration .

This order is not identical to the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration , although the names are often confused.

history

The decisive factor for the establishment of a new Benedictine branch of the order, which in addition to the solemn prayer of the hours should also cultivate the perpetual adoration of the most holy sacrament , was a vow that M. Picoté, pastor of St. Sulpice in Paris, on behalf of Queen Anne of Austria for made peace in France. It promised the establishment of a nunnery to be dedicated to the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament . This form of Eucharistic piety was widespread in the time of the Catholic renewal after the Reformation and as a result of the devastation of Catholic churches as well during the Thirty Years' War in France. Until her death, Mechtilde de Bar founded seven monasteries in France and one in Warsaw or accepted them as existing monasteries into the newly founded congregation . The first two monasteries in Germany came into being in 1854. The monastery in Trier was founded by Saint-Nicolas-de-Port , that in Osnabrück by Saint-Omer . When the German monasteries were expelled in the Kulturkampf , the first three monasteries were established in the Netherlands and one in Luxembourg in 1875. In 1880 the first convent was established in Seregno (moved to Ronco di Ghiffa in 1906) in Italy. In 1961 the sisters in Breda / Netherlands started a foundation in Tororo / Uganda. The approximately 40 monasteries of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament today are organized in national federations and an international confederation. They also belong to the Benedictine Confederation, which is represented by the Abbot Primate based in Rome .

spirituality

The nuns celebrate - as is customary with the Benedictines - the great monastic divine office. In addition, there is Eucharistic adoration in the monasteries, during which the sisters take turns in church every half hour or every hour during the day. Mechtilde de Bar already established in the constitutions that the sisters do not elect an abbess , but rather a prioress to lead their community at regular intervals . The Mother of God is coming to a tradition that goes back already to the year 1056, to as Abbot Hugh of Cluny in nunnery in Marcigny Maria began as abbess, the rank of the abbess. The monasteries earn their living through wafer bakeries and parament workshops . All monasteries also accept guests who want to spend times of silence and prayer.

Monasteries in German-speaking countries

Maria Hamicolt Monastery in Rorup
  • Kloster in Osnabrück , founded in 1854 by Saint-Omer, operates a wafer bakery and parament embroidery.
  • Bethanien Abbey in Trier-Kürenz , founded in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in 1854, operates a wafer bakery and parament embroidery.
  • Herz-Jesu-Kloster in Cologne-Raderberg , founded in Tegelen / Netherlands in 1890 in a residential building on Domstrasse, inauguration of the newly built monastery in 1895, operates a parament embroidery, a host bakery and a workshop for textile restoration. During the Nazi era, the
    monastery was a collection point for Jews who were deported to concentration camps.
  • Herz-Jesu-Kloster Kreitz near Neuss , founded in Bonn-Endenich in 1899, operates a wafer bakery and parament embroidery.

now dissolved monasteries:

  • Maria-Hamicolt monastery in Rorup (Westphalia), former Redemptorist monastery, founded in Oldenzaal / Osnabrück in 1891, dissolved in 2008
  • Maria-Hilf monastery in Bonn- Endenich , founded in 1857 by Saint Omer ; Disbanded in 2001
  • Monastery of the Mother of God of Vinnenberg near Warendorf , founded in 1893 by Hamicolt; Disbanded in 2005
  • Johannisberg (Rheingau), founded in 1907 from Bonn-Endenich. The convent was first located in Niederlahnstein , but was relocated in 1920 due to the risk of flooding; Disbanded in 1991.

French monasteries and their foundations

literature

  • Marcel Albert: women with history. The German-speaking monasteries of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament. EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2003, ISBN 3-8306-7171-7 ( Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary volume 42)
  • Ad adorationem perpetuam. Eternal adoration in the religious orders of the German-speaking area. Benedictine Sisters, Cologne 2006 ( Research 23, ZDB -ID 2284997-X ).
  • Life with Christ - Spiritual Directory of the Benedictine Sisters of Eternal Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament . Edited by the German Federation, self-published, o. O. 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2005-3-088 Marcel Albert, St. Ottilien, 2003
  2. ^ Transport III / 1 from Koeln, Köln (Köln), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 15/06/1942. In: YadVashem.org. Retrieved January 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ http://www.weindorf-johannisberg.de/johannisberg/johannisberg_kloster.htm
  4. ↑ https://www.service-des-moniales.cef.fr/monastere-notre-dame-dorient-a-laval-roqueceziere
  5. ↑ https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5650530p/texteBrut page 329
  6. ↑ https://www.dodenakkers.nl/artikelen-overzicht/algemeen/verdwenen/broekbergen.html