Misplaced Pages

St. Gabriel's Priory

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from St. Gabriel's Abbey) Benedictine nunnery in Austria
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (September 2022) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the German article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Gabriel}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Schloss Bertholdstein, former home of the nunnery

St. Gabriel's Priory, formerly St. Gabriel's Abbey (German: Priorat Sankt Gabriel, Abtei Sankt Gabriel, Kloster Sankt Gabriel), is a Benedictine nunnery in Sankt Johann bei Herberstein, Styria, Austria.

History

The community was founded as a priory in 1889 in Smíchov, now part of Prague, and was raised to the rank of an abbey in 1893. St. Gabriel's was the first women's community to join the Beuronese Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation. After World War I, the predominantly German-speaking community relocated from the newly-independent Czechoslovakia to Schloss Bertholdstein, a castle in Pertlstein in the present municipality of Fehring in Styria.

In 1942, the nunnery was commandeered by the National Socialists; the nuns were expelled and were unable to return until 1946.

In October 2007 the nuns joined the Federation of Sisters of St. Lioba and, as a priory once again, moved to Sankt Johann bei Herberstein in the municipality of Feistritztal, Styria, in November 2008.

The main source of income of the community is from making vestments and church embroidery and taking care of guests.

References

  1. Kostel sv. Gabriela (Holečkova) (created 28 August 2007)
  2. ^ Orden-online.de: St. Gabriel, Benediktinerinnen

Further reading

  • Ulrike-Johanna Wagner-Höher: Die Benediktinerinnen von St. Gabriel / Bertholdstein (1889–1919). Eos-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2008
  • Inge Steinsträßer: Wanderer zwischen den politischen Mächten. Pater Nikolaus von Lutterotti OSB (1892–1955) und die Abtei Grüssau in Niederschlesien. Böhlau Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20429-7, p. 72 (fn. 4), p. 77 (fn. 31), p. 87 (fn. 79)

46°55′53″N 15°57′21″E / 46.93139°N 15.95583°E / 46.93139; 15.95583


Stub icon

This article about an Austrian building or structure is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon 1

This article about a Christian monastery, abbey, priory or other religious house is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: