Brialmont Trappist Abbey

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The Trappist Abbey of Brialmont has been a monastery in Tilff, Esneux , Diocese of Liège since 1961 .

history

Charles Van der Cruyssen , abbot of Orval Abbey , which was repopulated in 1926 , and Thomas Louis Heylen (1899–1941), Bishop of Namur , founded the Société in 1934 in two priories in Sorée, Gesves , and Saint-Gérard, Mettet , with a group of postulants des Bernardines Réparatrices ("Society of Saint Bernard Sisters of Reparation") in response to the encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor ("Most Merciful Redeemer. On the generally owed reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus") by Pope Pius XI. The Society, a congregation from 1936 , lived according to the Cistercian rite from 1939 and made the solemn profession of seven nuns in 1941 . In 1961 the community moved from Sorée to Brialmont in Tilff, south of Liège . The Notre Dame de Brialmont monastery was elevated to an abbey and officially incorporated into the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance ( Trappists ) in 1975 . In 1976 the community of Saint-Gérard also moved to Brialmont. Pope John Paul II visited the monastery in May 1985. The monastery draws its living primarily from its own mushroom cultivation .

Superiors and Abbesses

  • Julienne Angenot (1941–1959)
  • Alix Streicher (1959–1986)
  • Colette Grévisse (1986-2006)
  • Marie-Pascale Dran (2006-)

literature

  • Idesbald van Houtryve: La Bernardine Réparatrice. Sa vocation et sa mission . La Congrégation des Bernardines réparatrices, Namur 1938, 124 pp.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Éditions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 395.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '25.2 "  N , 5 ° 34' 58.9"  E