Dominican convent Salernes

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The Dominican Convent of Salernes has been a Dominican convent in Salernes , Département Var , Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in France since 1980 .

history

In the years from 1975 pious women from the Tarentaise formed a community of sisters based on the contemplative charisma of the Dominican women . In 1980 Archbishop André-Georges Bontems von Chambéry , who had previously headed the Tarentaise diocese , offered them a property in Challes-les-Eaux , between Chambéry and Montmélian , where there had been an early Dominican monastery until the French Revolution . The community was called Notre-Dame de Clarté (Maria Licht). Your founding house in Challes-les-Eaux was closed in 2015.

Early on, a group of the founding community went to the Provence town of Salernes and, when the original accommodation became too small, built a spacious church and a monastery with a chapel west of the city (2, Quartier de la Combe ) (inaugurated by Bishop Joseph Madec in 1997 and 1999). The motherhouse and novitiate of the community are now located here. The nuns especially look after guests who have to deal with a traumatic experience.

literature

  • Louis Porte: Histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Editions du Lau 2017, p. 260 (picture).

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Coordinates: 43 ° 34 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 19.3 ″  E