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| The Mass and Ceremony program had a watercolor I made of the abbey long ago! I did not take photos during the mass, but it will be on the Abbey's website soon! |
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| Festive breakfast table |
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| Friends from another convent came and sang for her |
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| Wit Mother Abbess and Fr. Rainer |
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| Sister Martina presented me with this beautiful garden rose, since our earthly mother is no longer with us. |
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| Mother Abbess invited us to wlak the cloitser grardens |
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| The Nuns' cemetery, in the words of the nun who guided us, is to be a place fo beauty and also festive. |
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| There are many things that were done by a Sister Dorothea who lived in the 40s and 50s and was a wonderful artist |
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| More views of cemetery |
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| They hang laundry here |
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| Sister Martin'as room is the dormer with tied curtains |
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| a garden shed St Joseph |
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| Looking up one of the ancient garden sheds |
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| A smiling Madonna in a garden shed |
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| Climbing |
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| This linden tree was planted in 1914 after the secularization of religious houses ended in Germany |
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| Parts of the medieval fortress city walls are inside the Abbey grounds |
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| Windows |
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| I found this crucifix inside the tower--they housed many families during WWII and as an activity they taught them to make them--the artists sister Dorothea designed them. Mother let me bring it home! |
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| Bow and arrow anyone? |
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| The village below us |
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| Wow |
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| We also visited their Kindergarten |
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| Vegetables |
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| Beautiful |
1 comment:
Thanks for great pics! Trip down memory lane. I walked same paths.
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