Bertholdstein Abbey

The priory of St. Gabriel is a Benedictine monastery. The sisters, now Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Leoba, lived from 1919 to 2008 at Castle Bertholdstein in Fehring in Eastern Styria, since 29 November, 2008 St. Johann in Herbersteins.

History

The monastery was founded in 1889 in Prague and in 1893 an abbey. This Benedictine monastery was the first convent of the Congregation Beuronese. The Benedictine live by the motto ora et labora place, pray, read and work. The focus is the search for God and the church, where nothing is to be preferred. According to the tradition Beuronese the Latin choral prayer was the focus of the day. The sisters lived strictly monastic, that is, in the monastery whose territory they do not leave life (written ).

After the First World War, the predominantly German -speaking community of sisters moved to the castle Bertholdstein near Fehring. 1942, the monastery was confiscated by the Nazis, the sisters were expelled and were able to return until 1946 final.

By autumn 2007, the Benedictine Sisters of St. Gabriel changed their legal and spiritual affiliation and joined as an independent priory of the Federation of the Sisters of St. Leoba.

End of 2008, the Convention has become small left the castle and moved to St. Johann in Herbersteins in a small newly erected monastery in the immediate vicinity of the diocesan formation house house of women ( Sankt Johann in Herbersteins ). You try to connect the monastic life more with the apostolic. The recording and monitoring of guests within the meaning of Benedictine hospitality is their concern continues.