Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Ermida do Paiva, B.M.V. and St. Michael

Circary at the Time: Hispania

Years of Activity: saec. 14-16

Gallery:  Click Here

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

Monasticon Praemonstratense (III, 258)

Approximate modern location: Beautifully situated above the valley of the river Paiva between Lamego and Viseu, west of Castrodaire, Prov. Beira Alta, Portugal. 

Elm-Number [See below]: 234*

Other Comments: 

• This hermitage was founded in the 12th century, and only became surely Premonstratensian later.  Today, Ermida do Paiva survives as an active parish church.  

• See the Wikipedia article by clicking here.

• There are books in Portuguese relating to this house.  Their authors are:  Aarão de Lacerda, Possidónio da Silva, Fernando Teixeira

* 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.