Zwartsters Pamele

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The Congregation of the Zwartbesters van Pamele was one of the many Zwartsters communities in Belgium .

The monastery was founded in the 13th century. In addition to nursing the sick, the sisters also did "teaching service"; a brewery is also documented for 1684 . A portrait from 1698 shows us 15 sisters, in 1795 the monastery had 14 sisters and three servants. They were later joined by the sisters from the Oudenarde monastery, which was closed in 1796.

In 1830 a branch monastery was founded in Kortrijk and in 1859 the congregation of the Soeurs de Charité de Notre-Dame de Bonne-Espérance was founded in Binche by a professed sister of this monastery, Sister Maria Sabina Vandermeirsch. In 1869 the community received new statutes from the Bishop of Ghent. On July 27, 1930, the episcopal cooperative merged to form the Augustinian order. In 1949 the community had 14 members, of which the two youngest were soon to transfer to the Zwartsters van Dendermonde, so that in 1954 the youngest of the 12 sisters was 54 and the oldest 89 years. That year the sisters asked the Apostolic See for approval to be associated with the Congregation of Dendermonde . After approval, on May 3, 1954, the merger was completed on May 17 of the same year.

The convent was abolished in 1973 and transferred to the parish at the monastery. The last two sisters moved to the H. - Hartkliniek, where they formed a new convent with other sisters of the Congregation of Dendermonde. Sister Paula, the last sister of the former congregation of Oudenaarde, died in 1983.