Notre-Dame des Neiges Abbey Experiences Revival
In late 2022, eight energetic nuns from the Cistercian Abbey of Boulaur in France arrived to breathe new life into the Notre-Dame des Neiges Abbey in the Ardèche mountains. According to LeSalonBeige.fr (31 July), they have grown to 12 nuns.
The monastery was founded in 1850 by Trappist monks. It once hosted Saint Charles de Foucauld, who began his monastic journey there in 1890.
The monastery survived a fire in 1912 and the end of its wine production in the 2000s.
However, the monastery fell silent after its last monks left in December 2021. The ageing Trappist monks then handed it over to the nuns from Boulaur.
Boulaur itself had once come close to closure. In 1979, with only five sisters remaining, the monastery asked the Cistercian Abbot General for the permission to pray to a certain Claire de Castelbajac, who was known locally for her holiness. He agreed — temporarily. Soon after, new vocations arrived and the closure was averted. Since then, Claire de Castelbajac has been closely …More
God bless them. Three of my great aunts out of Chicago were Sisters of Notre -Dame, Sr. Wilhelmina, Sr. Prisca and Sr. Justina. May they rest in peace.
Traditional nuns like these helped build the Church. But once the ruinous reforms of Vatican II took place, thousands of nuns quit the religious life. The liberal ones who were left are dying out rapidly, and there will be nun remaining.
This is the future! There is no long-term future for the exclusive1962 Missal groups or modernist nuns,