Zwartstaers (aces)
The resident in Asse Zwartzusters Augustinessenstraße are a religious community from the religious family of Zwartzusters .
history
In 1818 the pastor of the Gasthaus zu Asse , Peter Johannes Luckx, leased the Walfergem fort and was already accommodating old and sick women there the following year. Another year later, namely in 1820, two young women registered, assuming that it was a matter of founding a new monastery, and offered themselves as postulants. Luckx, who had not yet thought of founding a monastery, now obtained the approval of the ecclesiastical and secular authorities and accepted the two women.
Relocated to Asse as early as 1821, the monastery, whose first superior had been the inn sister Norbertina de Greef since May 28, 1822, was consecrated to St. Francis de Hieronymo . A royal government resolution of 1824 limited the young community to nine members, which they achieved in the following year. Since the growth could not be stopped, a request was made to increase the number of members, which was granted on August 7, 1829. In the same year, nine sisters and five novices reached the approved upper limit of 14 members. In 1827 Sister Norbertina returned to her monastery and the young community moved into a house near Waarbeek , where they also took the orphans they looked after. After they finally returned to Asse in 1835, in 1842 they sent five sisters and a novice to start a new establishment in Sint-Truiden .
In 1860 there were still 15 sisters, the number of admissions rose especially since 1890, so that in 1922 the Congregation of Episcopal Rights comprised around 60 sisters. But despite this positive development, it was not until 1940 that a branch monastery was founded in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, which had also housed the novitiate since 1946 , and another foundation in Sint-Pieters-Woluwe in 1945. 1968 still active in three houses with 18 sisters, the community, which had not registered any more admissions since 1955, died out to three sisters by 1998.
Web links
- Petra De Vriendt: De gemeenschap der Zwartbesters te Asse (1822–1971 ) , licentiaatstesis voorlegerd aan de KUL 1988