Summary Page:  Current House

Name:  Postel, B.M.V. and S. Nicolaus

Circary: Brabant

Diocese: Antwerp

Postal Address information

Electronic Address information

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

URLs:  

• http://www.abdijpostel.be

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

Monasticon Praemonstratense: (II, 322)

Elm Number:  119*

History:

In north central Belgium, near the border with the Netherlands.  Founded in the year 1140, suppressed during the French disturbances in 1797, restored in Limburg 1840 and in Postel in 1847. Postel is a daughter house of Floreffe Abbey. 

* 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.