DameAgnes Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 And they make beer! http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-meditations-of-europes-last-brewmaster-nun/380967/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentJoy Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 And they make beer! So THAT'S why! I just assumed it was the chocolate. :saint2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sr Mary Catharine OP Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) TOO MANY NUNS! CORRECTION: they are Franciscan Sisters. I thought they were Benedictine nuns and I couldn't imagine that many in one cloister. Edited October 3, 2014 by Sr. Mary Catharine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthfinder Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 TOO MANY NUNS! CORRECTION: they are Franciscan Sisters. I thought they were Benedictine nuns and I couldn't imagine that many in one cloister. What about the really old Benedictine monasteries, say St. Walburg (?) any ideas at their capacity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemma Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Hi. I was absent for a long time because I'm actively discerning with some Benedictines. Yes, the Mallersdorf Sisters ("Mallersdorfer Schwestern") are no Benedictines, it's a congregation of Franciscan Sisters, drawing back to Bl. Paul Josef Nardini. The motherhouse is really big, but it's just a monastery and no abbey. The sisters are spread all over Bavaria in many places. In fact, it's a big congregation, but not too big any more. http://www.mallersdorfer-schwestern.de/ St. Walburg is comparatively big - i. e. in comparison to other benedictine monasteries of our days. In 2012 they have been 39, as in the following documentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njc21nym-AI Note the narrow-folded wimple, which is very typical for this convent and its affiliates. I couldn't find a more recent number, however they're quite flourishing: http://www.abtei-st-walburg.de/ Once they might have been many, many more. At Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg they're about twenty at the moment, but a century ago they have been about hundred nuns as I've been told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puellapaschalis Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 OFF-TOPIC Fun Fact: Nonnberg Abbey is where Maria Kutschera, better known as Maria von Trapp, was a postulant. END OFF-TOPIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DameAgnes Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 The St. Walburga sisters in CO are an offshoot of these sisters, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemma Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 @Eichstätt: They have quite a lot in the US, as far as I know. on their homepage they write: St.Emma, Greensburg/USA, St.Walburga, Boulder/USA, St.Mildred, Minster/England. They also say of some beginnings in the 19th century have developped three congregations with about fifty priories. @Nonnberg: true. It's also the oldest female abbey north of the alps, which I think is extremely cool. They go back to 714 (1300 years this year) without interruption! sometimes I wonder which benedictine monasteries (without serious interruption) are actually older. No doubt there are older ones, but who is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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