Cistercian Abbey of São José do Rio Pardo
The Cistercian abbey of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo is a Brazilian monastery of Cistercian in Sao Jose do Rio Pardo , São Paulo (State) , Diocese of São João da Boa Vista .
history
When the German Hardehausen Monastery had to flee from National Socialism to Brazil in 1939 , where it still lives today in the Hardehausen-Itatinga Monastery , Abbot Alfons Heun first tried to settle the community in São José do Rio Pardo (northwest of Poços de Caldas ). There the monastery Nossa Senhora de São Bernardo (“Our Lady of Saint Bernard”) was founded in 1943, but it was incorporated into the Congregation of San Bernardo d'Italia in 1949 , while the Hardehausener founded Itatinga in 1951. Cardinal Orani João Tempesta , who was born in São José do Rio Pardo and was its first abbot for one year when the monastery was elevated to an abbey in 1996, emerged from the São Bernardo Monastery . The current abbot of the monastery has been Dom Hélio Porto since 2015.
See also
Web links
- Website of the São José do Rio Pardo Abbey
- Website of the Brazilian Cistercians
- History of Itatinga Monastery with mention of São José do Rio Pardo, Portuguese
- Message about the 2015 abbot election in São José do Rio Pardo, Italian, with picture
Coordinates: 21 ° 35 ′ 37 ″ S , 46 ° 52 ′ 51 ″ W.