Sepulchiners
The Choir Women of the Holy Sepulcher or Sepulchrine Sisters are an order in the Roman Catholic Church who lives according to the Rule of St. Augustine . The choir women are the female branch of the Canons of the Holy Sepulcher , which was created in the time of the Crusades in 1114 at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
The sepulchrins have spread in Europe, especially in the Netherlands . In Germany there is a monastery of the Sepulchrine nuns in Baden-Baden and Neuss . It was founded by Margravine Maria Franziska von Baden in 1670. She got to know the order in Jülich and Aachen . There he had earned a good reputation for bringing up girls during the Counter Reformation .
The choir women originally wore a white habit , the color of which was later changed to black to express their mourning over the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by the Muslims under Caliph al-Hakim . The sisters wear a red double cross on their tunic and choir cloak , which comes from the coat of arms of Jerusalem .
The choir women maintained the monastery school of the Holy Sepulcher with boarding school in Baden-Baden until 1991, after which the school became the responsibility of the school foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. In 2001 the monastery was closed and the last nuns moved into a nursing home. In 2002 the monastery inventory was auctioned and the rooms of the school made available. In 2007 the convention was dissolved by decree.
There are only a few monasteries of this order left in the world, namely in
- Saragossa (Spain)
- New Hall near Chelmsford (England)
- Turnhout (Belgium) with several subsidiaries in Belgium and in the Congo
- Bilzen (Belgium)
- Male near Bruges (Belgium)
- Sint Odiliënberg (Netherlands)
- Maarssen (Netherlands) with a subsidiary in Brazil
- Herkenrode Monastery (Belgium)
literature
- Kaspar Elm : Canons of the Holy Sepulcher . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 18878–1888 also deals with women choirs.
- Imelda Brenninkmeijer: History and Spirituality of the Canon Regulars of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . In: Kaspar Elm, Cosimo Damiano Fonseca (ed.): Militia Sancti Sepulchri. Idea e istituzioni. Atti del Colloquio Internazionale tenuto presso la Pontificia Università del Laterano 10-12 April 1996 . Città del Vaticano, 1998, pp. 223-232
Remarks
- ↑ Homepage , Spanish
- ^ New Hall School is in the tradition of the Order, but the community now lives in Colchester . Note under New Hall School Today .
- ↑ Herkenrode Monastery. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .