Capuchin Sisters of Eternal Adoration

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The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration , religious symbol OSClCap or OSCCap are a Roman Catholic women's orders and a branch of the Poor Clares , a branch of the Franciscan Order . Today you belong to the Second Order of the Franciscan Family. The nuns live in strict enclosure , contemplative in complete silence and personal poverty.

history

Monastery in Mainz

Already towards the end of the 13th century there were the first Poor Clares in Mainz as part of a wave of monasteries being founded . The Reichklara monastery was abolished in 1781/1782 and now houses the Natural History Museum . The active phase of the other Mainz Poor Clares monastery ("Armklara") in the Antoniterkapelle (Mainz) ended with the secularization in 1802.

In the 16th century, the Capuchin order split from the Franciscans . During this time there were also reform efforts with the Poor Clares . Maria Laurentia Longo founded a reform monastery in Naples in 1535, which endeavored to observe the original rule of St. Clare. This branch of reform spread worldwide by the middle of the 18th century.

The branch of the Order of the Capuchin Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration was founded in 1860 by the Capuchin Father Bonifatius Söngen . The nuns live according to the rule of St. Clare of Assisi . There are four monasteries of this order in German-speaking countries.

The Mainz adoration monastery "Maria Hilf" was founded in the same year by the Mainz Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler .

The monastery in Mainz was badly hit and completely destroyed in the air raids on Mainz during World War II on February 27, 1945. 41 sisters who fled to the basement were buried and suffocated.

In 1952 the first service was celebrated in the rebuilt monastery. 1996 saw the inauguration of the new monastery chapel “St. Klara ".

As early as 1904, with the help of the Mainz sisters, a new branch, the Bethlehem Monastery , was founded in Koblenz-Pfaffendorf . From there, a new worship monastery was built in Melville (South Africa) in 1930, which soon also accepted local sisters. Some Capuchin Poor Clares from South Africa took over the Capuchin monastery in Rosenheim in 1986.

The nuns cultivate the daily eternal adoration and see their main task in vicarious prayer and in offering spiritual accompaniment. They pray the Liturgy of the Hours and invite believers to do so. They earn their living by baking hosts. The monastery in Koblenz-Pfaffendorf currently consists of 12 sisters and three novices.

Her mother Ignatia von Hertling (1838–1909), the cousin of the German Chancellor and Bavarian Prime Minister Georg von Hertling, was the mother of the Mainz superior and founder or superior of the Koblenz subsidiary monastery .

The current abbess of the Maria Hilf monastery in Mainz is mother Maria Theresia Hüther OSCCap (2020).

Convents of the Capuchin Sisters of Eternal Adoration

literature

  • Hidden embers and blazing fire: the history and fate of the Capuchin Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration of the “Maria Hilf” monastery in Mainz . Mainz 1948. [23 pages].
  • Paulus Berghaus OFMCap .: A century of "Eternal Adoration" in Mainz. 1860-1960 , Mainz 1960 [36 pages]
  • 150 years of "Eternal Adoration" Mainz, Poor Clares-Capuchin Sisters from Eternal Adoration Mainz , Meinhardt, Idstein o. J. [2010] [Popular commemorative publication of the monastery with an emphasis on spirituality and the newly designed monastery chapel]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Festive mass 150 years of the Monastery of the Capuchin Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Mainz with Auxiliary Bishop Werner Guballa