St. Mary Chapel, of the original monastery. 1643 AD.
Source: Facebook *
Another Institution shutting their doors.
Vatican II / Novus Ordo removed the Mysteries of the Catholic Faith, so naturally it will disintegrate, even faster than expected. Tomorrow is their "Open-House" viewing and "garage sale". It would be more precise to call it their "Closing Convent" Knick-Knack sale. Modernists have a mental block when it comes to REALITY. Real Estate Sale will maybe, just maaaybe, open their minds.
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https://tribunechretienne.com/a-nevers-quatre-siecles-de-presence-religieuse-sachevent-les-visitandines-organisent-leur-vide-couvent/AI Translation:
In Nevers, four centuries of religious presence end: the Visitandines organize their “empty-convent”
Monastery of the Visitation to Nevers -
The event concretely marks the end of a religious presence whose roots date back to the 17th century
Some furniture, trinkets, dishes, desks, tables, cabinets and buffets: the objects offered for sale might seem very ordinary. Yet they take on a completely different meaning when they are those of a monastery that is about to close its doors. In Nevers, the Sisters of the Visitation prepare their departure and organize, on Saturdays 12 and 19 September, from 13:30 to 17:30, a "void-convent" at 49, route des Saulaies.
... The Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary was founded in 1610 in Annecy by Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jeanne de Chantal. (...) the Visitandines were permanently inscribed in the spiritual history of Nevers. The city also retains a remarkable architectural testimony: the Sainte-Marie chapel, built between 1639 and 1643, today classified as a historical monument. Its remarkable Baroque façade remains the main remnant of the former convent of the Visitation. However, the history of the community has not been continuous. Revolution, displacement and expulsion have several times changed its existence. After various stages, the Visitandines returned to Nevers in 1935. They finally settled in 1993 in the monastery of the road of the Saulaies, now concerned by this departure.
For several years, however, the decline in the number of nuns had made the future of the community increasingly fragile. By the beginning of 2025, there were already only four. In March, two elderly nuns left Nevers,(...) The closure was not yet announced. Sister Marie-Odile had even wanted to dismiss this perspective by a deliberately reassuring formula: “The purple ornaments that our priests wear today are not those of a funeral! Prayer and welcome were to continue. Eighteen months later, the sale of the furniture initially gives a much more tangible reality.
This disappearance goes beyond the case of Nevers alone. It illustrates the situation of several French contemplative communities confronted with the ageing of their members and the rarefaction of vocations. When only a few nuns remain in a vast monastery, sustaining community life becomes particularly difficult. The disappearance of a contemplative community cannot, however, be assessed according to the ordinary criteria of attendance or profitability. The vocation of the Visitandines is first of all that of prayer, silence and a life entirely dedicated to God, in the spirituality inherited from Saint Francis of Sales and Saint Joan of Chantal.
This is what gives this “empty-convent” a special meaning. Behind the cabinets, tables and dishes changing hands, it is a silent presence that disappears from Nevers.
Questions now remain about the final date of the departure of the last nuns and the future of the monastery of the road of the Saulaies.(...)certain: with the departure of the Visitandines, a very old page of the Catholic history of Nevers is closing.
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* 2 minute video of the neighborhood in Nevers.
https://www.facebook.com/leneversoisphotographe/videos/la-chapelle-sainte-marie-joyau-baroque-du-xviie-si%C3%A8cle-veille-sur-nevers-avec-so/998739676313926/
Topic: Sisters of the Visitation, Monastery in Nevers France, Close '26 after 416 years (Read 1783 times)