490 Sisters In This Bavarian Abbey!

[DameAgnes]

And they make beer! 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-meditations-of-europes-last-brewmaster-nun/380967/

[SilentJoy]

And they make beer! 

 

 

So THAT'S why! I just assumed it was the chocolate. :saint2:
 

[Sr Mary Catharine OP]

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

[truthfinder]

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?

[Hemma]

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.

 

[puellapaschalis]

OFF-TOPIC

 

Fun Fact: Nonnberg Abbey is where Maria Kutschera, better known as Maria von Trapp, was a postulant.

 

END OFF-TOPIC

[DameAgnes]

The St. Walburga sisters in CO are an offshoot of these sisters, I think.

[Hemma]

@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.