Saint-André de Clerlande monastery
| Monastery of Saint-André de Clerlande Monastère Saint-André de Clerlande |
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| location | Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 40 '41 " N , 4 ° 35' 13" E |
| founding year | 1970 |
| Mother monastery | Saint-André de Zevenkerken Abbey |
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Daughter monasteries |
Mambre Priory |
The Monastery of Saint-André de Clerlande ( fr . : Monastère Saint-André de Clerlande ) is a Benedictine monastery in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve , a university town in the French-speaking province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium . The Clerlande Monastery is part of the Benedictine Congregation of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary , to which around thirty monasteries on five continents belong.
After the split of the Catholic University of Leuven in 1968 , the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain chose Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve as the new location. The first Benedictine monks settled near the university as early as 1967. In 1970 the first buildings were erected in a 200 hectare forest of the university and the monastery was founded as a priory by the Abbey of Saint-André de Zevenkerken from Bruges . The monastery complex designed and realized by the architect Jean Cosse and Father Frédéric Debuyst is located in the middle of the Bois de Lauzelle of Scots pines. Around 25 monks and 18 Benedictine oblates live in the monastery.
In 1978 the Mambré Priory was founded in Ngombe-Lutendele on the outskirts of Kinshasa , the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Fondation du monastère de Clerlande on clerlande.com , accessed on March 2, 2020 (fr.)