Trappist convent Huambo

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The Trappist Monastery of Huambo has been an Angolan monastery of the Trappist women since 1982 , most recently in Soke-Tchipipa, Province of Huambo , Archdiocese of Huambo .

history

The Trappist Abbey of San Isidro de Dueñas , which founded the Bela Vista Trappist monastery in Angola in 1958 and also wanted an Angolan nunnery, turned to the Trappist Monastery of Benaguacil with a request to accept postulants from Angola. These arrived from 1966. In 1978 the first went to Angola as sisters. The now existing Trappist Abbey of Valserena also sent Spanish sisters in 1980 and founded the Nasoma Y'Ombembwa (“Maria Frieden”) monastery in Huambo in 1982 , which was made a priory in 1988 .

In the turmoil of the civil war in Angola , the monastery faced great difficulties. Threatened by war and mines, the sisters looked after the starving and orphaned war victims, especially children and the elderly, built huts, dug wells and farmed, and this in addition to regular monastery life with choir prayers during the day and night. After changing locations four times (Cuando, Cambiote, Kakuti, Bailundo), they settled permanently in Soke ( Tchipipa ) in 2002 , 20 kilometers from the center of Huambo, and, supported by volunteers and donations from the vicinity of the Valserena monastery, built the today existing monastery building. In Luanda they maintain the House of Kikolo ( Bairro Kikolo ).

Superiors and Prioresses

  • Eugenia Viadana (1980–1988)
  • Antonia Zanaglio (1988-2000)
  • Florença Kalumbo Raimondo (2000–2012)
  • Manuela Salvadori (2012–)

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Coordinates: 12 ° 39 ′ 55.3 "  S , 15 ° 42 ′ 58.3"  E