500 Years of Revival: How the Einsiedeln Monastery Nearly Died Out in 1526

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1526 – END OR TURNING POINT? How the Einsiedeln Monastery Found New Bloom History repeatedly knows turning points where the course of events could have taken a completely different direction. The Einsiedeln Monastery experienced such a moment in 1526: The monastic community had shrunk to a single monk – the very elderly 86-year-old abbot. The survival of the famous Benedictine abbey was hanging by a thread, its end was imminent. How did it come to this? And how did the monastery find new bloom to survive until today? The lecture takes you on a captivating search for clues.

Highlights

• Lecture on the rescue of the Einsiedeln Monastery
• Historical insights into the year 1526
• Captivating search for clues to the monastery's bloom

General Information

The lecture at the Einsiedeln Monastery highlights the critical situation of the Benedictine abbey in 1526. It explains how the monastery was saved despite the looming extinction and which turning points were decisive.

Location

Klosterplatz, 8840 Einsiedeln, Schweiz

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