Piedad Bernarda Cistercian Convent (Madrid)

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The Cistercian convent Piedad Bernarda has been a convent of the Cistercian women since 1535, first in Vallecas , and from 1553 in Madrid in Spain .

history

A nunnery founded in Vallecas (today: Madrid) in 1473 became Cistercian in 1535 and called itself Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Piedad Bernarda (“Mercy of Mary” of the Saint Bernard Sisters). In 1553 the convent moved to Madrid on Calle de Alcalá . There the Calle Virgen de los Peligros still reminds of the former church with the miraculous image of Nuestra Señora del Peligro ("Mary Help from Danger"). In the course of the desamortization in Spain , the sisters were expelled from their monastery in 1836, were temporarily housed in the Sacramento monastery and from 1877 onwards they moved to Calle Isabel la Católica . Their monastery there burned down in 1931. In 1939 they moved into the monastery in Calle Joaquín Costa 49, which they still live in today. The Convention solicits vocations.

literature

  • Federico Delclaux and José María Sanabria: Guia para visitar los Santuarios marianos de Madrid . Encuentro, Madrid 1991, pp. 99-100.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 846.

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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 32.4 "  N , 3 ° 40 ′ 55.5"  W.