Hélène Van den Broeck

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Hélène Van den Broeck , née Caecilia Thérèse Van den Broeck (born August 6, 1765 in Brussels , † May 12, 1826 in Reiningue ) was a Capuchin , Trappist and prioress in Germany and France.

life and work

Caecilia Thérèse Van den Broeck was first a Capuchin in Brussels. On September 11, 1806, she entered the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery of the Trappists, was dressed on September 21, and made solemn profession on December 18, 1807 . She took the religious name Hélène . In 1808 she succeeded the deceased prioress Edmond Paul de Barth as superior of the monastery, which lasted until 1825. Then she led the nuns to the Oelenberg Abbey, which had been prepared by Petrus Klausener , and died shortly afterwards. Her successor was Stanislaus Schey . The Trappist women who moved to Altbronn Abbey in Ergersheim (Bas-Rhin) in 1895 are now in Baumgarten Abbey .

literature

  • Immo Eberl, The Cistercians. History of a European Order , Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007.
  • Josiane Ferrari-Clément, Fous de Dieu. Récit d'une odyssée trappiste 1793–1815 , Paris, Cerf, 1998.
  • Marie de la Trinité Kervingant, Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines , Paris, Beauchesne, 1989.
  • Wilhelm Knoll, 30 years of Trappist settlement in Darfeld 1795–1825. A contribution to the church history in the Coesfeld district , Bernardus-Verlag, Mainz 2012.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965), Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 , Paris, Cerf, 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994.
  • Paul Stintzi (1898–1988), History of the Oelenberg Abbey 1046–1954 , Westmalle, 1962.

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personal data
SURNAME Van den Broeck, Hélène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van den Broeck, Caecilia Thérèse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Capuchin, Trappist and prioress in Germany and France
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1826
Place of death Reiningue