Blitterswijck Monastery

Monastery Blitterswijck was 1903-1919 a French monastery of Trappist nuns in Blitterswijck in Venray , Province of Limburg (Netherlands) .

history

When in 1903 the monasteries in France threatened to be dissolved by the law separating church and state , some of the Trappist women from La Coudre monastery founded the Notre Dame de Bonne Garde monastery in Blitterswijck, west of Kevelaer , as a refuge in the Netherlands , but had to do so in 1919 give up due to floods and in 1920 was sent from the mother monastery (keeping the name) to re-founding in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray , where the community lasted until 1953, but then moved to Campénéac for the new foundation (with a change of name) .

Matron

• Marie du Sacré-Coeur Perney

literature

• L'Abbaye Notre-Dame de La Coudre à Laval (Mayenne), par des Cisterciennes de La Coudre. In: Les Amis des Monastères . 137, January 2004, pp. 7-37 (here: pp. 22-24).

Web links

• Mention of Blitterswijck Monastery as "Blitterswyck" (English)
• Website Laval "Monastery of La Coudre" with mention of the Monastery of Blitterswijck (French)
• Mention of Blitterswijck (French)

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 50.2 "  N , 6 ° 6 ′ 45.5"  E