Zwartsters Oudenaarde

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The Catholic sister community of the Zwartste family in Oudenaarde belonged to the Cellite family , who were mainly active in nursing.

Founded before 1295, her monastery was located on the Wijngaardstraat. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the sisters were mainly involved in caring for those suffering from the plague . In 1578 they also took over the care of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwhospitaal, whose sisters had left it. When the epidemic subsided, they came back and rewarded the Zwartsteers for their services. But these services did not save them from the raging of an angry crowd and so their monastery was devastated by the iconoclasts in 1566, 1572 and 1578 . In 1574, linnen was made and braids were sewn in the monastery . When the city magistrate needed part of their house for the expansion of the city wall in 1670, the sisters moved into a house in Einestraat. On August 28, 1763, the Bishop of Fearnes (Ireland) consecrated their new chapel in honor of St. Augustine . After the bishop gave them various easing of the rules of fasting in the course of the 18th century, the sisters had to leave their monastery on December 18th, 1796, after it was abolished during the French Revolution . The sisters who survived the turmoil of time later went to the monastery of the Sisters of Pamele .