Mikkabi Monastery
Mikkabi Monastery ( Japanese 海 の 星 修道院 , Umi no Hoshi Shūdōin , German "Sea Star Monastery") has been a Japanese monastery of the Saint Bernard Sisters of Esquermes since 1954 , which is now in Itō .
history
Three European Saint Bernard sisters from the mother house of La Cessoie Monastery founded the Maria Meerstern ( Our Lady Star of the Sea / Stella Maris / Umi-no-hoshi Shudoin ) monastery in Hamamatsu , Japan, with a school and kindergarten in 1954 . In 1998 the monastery was relocated to Mikkabi (incorporated in 2005 to Hamamatsu) on the northern tip of Lake Hamana . In July 2014 the relocation to Itō took place.
Web links
- Monastery website (Japanese)
- Mikkabi Monastery in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia (English)
- Mikkabi Monastery on the Japan side of the Alliance InterMonastères (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ホ ー ム - uminohoshisyuudouin ペ ー ジ！ In: uminohoshisyuudouin.jimdo.com. Retrieved January 30, 2016 (Japanese).
Coordinates: 34 ° 53 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 139 ° 6 ′ 38.1 ″ E