Summary Page:  Current House

Name: Averbode, B.M.V. and S Joann. Bapt.

Circary: Brabant

Diocese: Mechlinien-Brussels

Postal Address information

Electronic Address information

Gallery:  Click Here

URLs:  

• http://www.abdijaverbode.be 

• http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdij_van_Averbode 

Map:  Click Here (Source:  © MapQuest  http://www.mapquest.com)

Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 270)

Elm Number [See Below]:  118

Nearest Roadway:

A13 (E313) Antwerp-Aachen, exit 23: Geel-West;

A2 Leuven-Lummen-Aachen, exit 23: Tielt-Winge or exit 25: Halen

History:

Founded in 1134, and after the French disturbances, restored in 1834. A daughter house of St. Michael's in Antwerp.  Site of the Order's major Publishing House, and location of the Order's major scholarly / spiritual journal, Analecta Praemonstratensia.  

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* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.