St. Willibrord's Abbey
St. Willibrord's Abbey (Dutch: Sint-Willibrordsabdij) at Doetinchem in Gelderland is the most recently established Benedictine monastery in the Netherlands.
History
The monastery, dedicated to Saint Willibrord, was founded immediately after World War II by the over-populated Oosterhout Abbey. Initially the monks lived in Slangenburg Castle, which they partially restored. In the 1950s they succeeded in building a new monastery on part of the castle estate. As building materials were scarce immediately after the war, the monastery was largely built out of old paving stones, and the roofs were constructed without wood: the tiles sit directly on concrete beams.
A large new abbey church was planned, but never materialised: the present church building was originally intended as the monastery library.
The community has a long history of commitment to interreligious dialogue. The retreat house includes a zendo with a rock garden, patterned on the famous Zen gardens of Kyoto. Fr. Cornelius Tholens, abbot from 1954 to 1972, was a founder of the Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique, the European arm of the DIMMID which held its annual meeting here in 2019.[1]
References
- ^ Skudlarek, OSB, William (2019). "Report 2019 board meeting & European coordinators - DIMMID". dimmid.org. IX (2 - July - December). DIMMID. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- Sint-Willibrordsabdij website (in Dutch)
- v
- t
- e
- St Catherine's Cathedral, Utrecht
- St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral, Breda
- St. Joseph Cathedral, Groningen
- Cathedral of St Bavo, Haarlem
- St. John's Cathedral ('s-Hertogenbosch)
- St. Christopher's Cathedral, Roermond
- List of Catholic churches in the Netherlands
- Caribbean:
- Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, Willemstad
- Basilica of St. Anne, Willemstad
- Pro-Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, Oranjestad
- List of Catholic churches in the Dutch Caribbean
- Egmond Abbey
- St. Benedictusberg Abbey
- St. Willibrord's Abbey
- Carmelite Monastery, Echt
- Berne Abbey
- Achel Abbey
- Koningshoeven Abbey
- Lilbosch Abbey
- Catholic Church in the Dutch Caribbean
- List of Catholic schools in the Netherlands
- List of Dutch saints
- List of Catholic seminaries
- Reestablishment of the episcopal hierarchy in the Netherlands
- Jong Nederland
- Tilburg University
Catholicism portal
Netherlands portal
51°57′05″N 6°22′03″E / 51.9514°N 6.3675°E / 51.9514; 6.3675
 | This article about a church building or other Christian place of worship in the Netherlands is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
