Missionary Benedictine Sisters from Tutzing

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Monastery building in Tutzing
Maria Hilf chapel at the main building of the monastery

The Mission Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing are an international, Catholic religious order .

history

On September 24, 1885, the first four candidates joined the mission community of the Missionary Benedictines of St. Ottilien, founded in 1884 by Father Andreas Amrhein in Reichenbach in the Upper Palatinate . In 1887 the sisters and brothers moved to St. Ottilien (Upper Bavaria).

On November 11, 1887, the first missionaries were sent to East Africa.

In 1904 the sisters moved to Tutzing on Lake Starnberg and are now represented worldwide. In addition to Tutzing, there are communities in Bernried , Dresden and Ettiswil .

Priory houses are located in Daegu , Manila , Nairobi , Ndanda , Norfolk , Olinda , Peramiho , Rome , Seoul , Sorocaba , Torres Novas, and Windhoek . The Generalate is in Rome, where there is also a guest house.

Sr. Maoro Sye OSB has been Superior General since 2018.

literature

  • Sigram Sauer : The mother house of the Mission Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing in difficult times. Missionary Benedictine Sisters, Tutzing 1991.
  • Gertrud Link: Mein Weg mit Gott , Eos Verlag, St. Ottilien 1998.

Web links

Commons : Kloster Tutzing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Heritage and Order , vol. 95 (2019), p. 6.