Cistercian convent of Santa María de Jesús (Salamanca)

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The Cistercian convent of Santa María de Jesús has been a convent of the Cistercian sisters at two different locations in Salamanca in Spain since 1552 and 1958 .

history

40 ° 57 ′ 36 "N, 5 ° 39 ′ 32" W.

Local nobles donated the Cistercian convent Convento del Santo Nombre de Jesús (Name of Jesus) in 1552 in today's street Paseo de las Canalejas 139 of Salamanca , which existed there until 1958. Then the sisters sold the monastery to the Piarists (Spanish: Escolapios ), who still run the “Colegio Calasanz” school (after José Calasanz ) there. In the Canalejas there is still the church built by Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón (known as “Antigua iglesia de las Bernardas”) and the cloister.

In 1958 the nuns moved to a simple new building in the Camino de las Aguas (known as Convento de las Madres Bernardas "Bernardine convent"), not far from the Glorieta de las Bernardas ("St. Bernard Roundabout"). The convent belongs to the Cistercian Congregation of San Bernardo (CCSB) .

literature

  • Arturo Balado Pachón and Consuelo Escribano Velasco: Guía del Cister en Castilla y León . Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Junta de Castilla y León. Valladolid, 2012, pp. 171-176 (online).
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 824.

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