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Hardenberg-Neviges Franciscan Monastery

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Hardenberg-Neviges Franciscan Monastery

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    December 24, 2020

    The Franciscan monastery was founded in 1675 to look after the pilgrimage.
    Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neviges#Franziskanerkloster


    After 345 years of presence, the Franciscans said goodbye to the Marian pilgrimage site of Neviges on January 12, 2020. In an extremely well-attended celebratory service with the Cologne auxiliary bishop Dr. Dominikus Schwaderlapp, the work of the brothers in the parish and pilgrimage, which they have looked after since 1675, was remembered.
    Source: franziskaner.net/neviges-sagt-danke


    The pilgrimage in the largest pilgrimage site in the Archdiocese of Cologne has been looked after by three "Abbés" of the French "Community of Saint Martin" since September 2020.
    Source: horeb.org/programm/news-beitraege/details/news/die-gemeinschaft-sankt-martin-in-neviges

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      April 23, 2022

      One of the few saints who is highly valued outside of Christianity is San Francesco, known in German-speaking countries as Francis of Assisi. Francis was born in Assisi in 1181/82 and died in 1226. In his youth, the son of wealthy parents, he was more of a bon vivant, but later he turned to Christ. One day he was praying in the half-ruined church of San Damiano, located on the hillside outside the city walls of Assisi, and heard the voice of Christ from the cross, calling on him to "rebuild his church". At first he took this request literally and restored the church building, but later he came to the realization that this was primarily about the church as the community of believers.
      Many people joined him, and the Order of the Friars Minor of Francis of Assisi was founded. Today there are three male branches in the large Franciscan order family: the Franciscans, the Minorites and the Capuchins; and two female ones: the Franciscan sisters and the Poor Clares.
      His burial church in Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco, which did not even exist during Francis's lifetime, is nevertheless one of the great "original shrines" of the Franciscan order. It can be found here as a hiking highlight under this link: komoot.de/highlight/138624

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        November 6, 2023

        Unfortunately, the Franciscans left the monastery. The pilgrimage and parish are now looked after by the more conservative St. Martin community. But St. Mary's Cathedral is still a worthwhile address.

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