"Life and Peace" Congregation

f04 - VeP - nuns

foundation date1824
website http://www.benedictinessen-schoten.be
email address benedictinessen.schoten@skynet.be

The monastery "Regina Pacis" at Schotenhof has been founded in 1926 by Dom Constantinus Bosschaerts and nuns associated with the Olivetan Congregation, coming from France via England, and inspired by the ideal of the unity between christians.
Modern chapel and church (XXe century). Oriental chapel also open to the orthodox parish of Antwerp and Breda. Ecumenical contacts. Workshops of art: tapestries, weavings, sculpture, statues, ceramics. Personal and group retreats. Secondary school of classic formation.