


The Sisters of Notre-Dame Monastery and School
The Sisters of Notre-Dame Monastery and School
At the Catholic bishop Csajághy’s invitation, the first six sisters arrived in
Already in 1858 a boarding school was opened in the monastery. But the settlement was extremely poor, and the nuns worked to exhaustion; the head (the mother superior) of the monastery died just four months after arrival. In 1862, the present building was inaugurated, and the order, and together with it, the educational activities began to develop rapidly.
Of the girls in
The end of the Sisters of Notre Dame order came rapidly with the establishment of communism in 1948. They were forbidden to work – teach in schools, and throughout the country all Catholic nuns had to move into house arrest. The Sisters of Notre Dame initially went to the Maria Radna monastery, but in 1952 they had to move even from there – some to Oraştie, others on a farm at Popesti-Leordeni, near
Practically, this was the end of a religious community that was very much involved in the youth’s education in
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