Nishinomiya monastery

Nishinomiya Monastery ( Japanese 西宮 の 聖母 修道院 , Nishinomiya no Seibo Shūdōin , dt. "Monastery of the Holy Mother of Nishinomiya") has been a Japanese monastery of the Trappist women since 1935 , first in Yawata, then in Jūrenji, today in Nishinomiya .

history

Monastery Tenshien 1935 founded the monastery of Our Lady of Lourdes (Seiboen) in Yawata, Prefecture Oita , Kyushu (1937 Abbey ), the 1948 after Jūrenji, Kurume , Fukuoka Prefecture , and from there in 1966 after Nishinomiya , Hyogo Prefecture , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Osaka , relocated has been.

Foundations

• 1954: Nasu Monastery , in Nasu .
• 1981/1982: Monastery Miyako , 2002 laid as a monastery Ajimu , Usa .

Abbesses

• Benedicte Bazin (1935-1942)
• Colette Moyencourt (1943)
• Martina Oikawa (1944–1951)
• Madeleine Bohomme (1951–1952)
• Caritas Konishi (1952–1966)
• Christiana Tamura (1966-1998)
• Joanna Sato (1998-2000)
• Théodora Naiki (2000-2009)
• Veronique Shibata (2009-2015)

Web links

• Monastery Nishinomiya on the site of the Trappists (English)
• Nishinomiya monastery in the family tree of the Trappist monasteries

Coordinates: 34 ° 46 ′ 28.6 ″  N , 135 ° 18 ′ 33.9 ″  E