Brownshill Cistercian Convent
The Brownshill Bernardine Convent is an English monastery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , Diocese of Clifton .
history
The Saint Bernard Sisters of Esquermes , a branch of the Cistercian Sisters , founded two daughter monasteries (with an attached school) in England before the First World War , when the Third Republic oppressed the French monasteries. Built in 1897, the Saint Bernard was built in Slough , Berkshire and lasted until 2006, while the Saint Bernard was in Westcliff-on-Sea (now Southend-on-Sea ) from 1910 and was dissolved in 1983. Both monasteries sent nuns in 1974 to found the still existing monastery in Hyning, Warton, City of Lancaster . In 2006 the Monastery of Our Lady and Saint Bernard was founded in Brownshill in the Cotswolds with the acceptance of the Slough nuns and with the support of Hyning . This took place after there had already been a Cistercian settlement there in 1943 under the spiritual supervision of William E. Orchard (1877–1955). The common novitiate of Hyning and Brownshill Monasteries is in Hyning.
literature
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Éditions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 902, 912, 928, 930.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 20.6 " N , 2 ° 10 ′ 32.4" W.