name

Notre Dame de la Plaine

             mother house of 

Bernardine Cistercians of Esquermes

(The Monasteries of the Bernardines

of Esquermes are not autonomous

and have a system of central

government, based at the Mother

House)

                      latin name

                      founded in

1948

                    inhabited by

nuns

                      founded by

The Bernardines of Esquermes were

founded in Esquermes, a suburb of

Lille in 1827.

The foundresses came from three

Cistercian Abbeys which were dissolved in the French Revolution (1789):

          Notre Dame d’Annay  (f. 1196)

          Notre Dame de la Woestine (f. 1217)

          Notre Dame des Près, Douai, (f. 1221)

Historical and political reasons caused the Mother House to be transferred several times. Before La Plaine, the Mother House was at Armentières, France.

              daughter abbeys

Monastère Stella Maris, Mikkabi Japon

Monastère Notre Dame du Lac, Goma, RDC 

Monastère Notre Dame des Petites Roches (St Bernard du Touvet, France)              

Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning, Carnforth, UK

Monastère Notre Dame de Bafor, Diebougou, Burkina Faso

Monastery of Our Lady and St Bernard, Brownshill, UK

                     affiliated to

Ordo monialium cist. Bernardinarum de Esquermes

                           to visit

                          address

Monastère Notre Dame de la Plaine

287, Avenue de Lattre de Tassigny

59350, St André, FRANCE

                            phone

[+33] (0)3 20 51 76 20

                                fax

[+33] (0)3 20 42 26 70

                             email

sistermaryhelen@bernardine.org   (Prioress General )

stmbernardine@yahoo.fr   (Local Prioress)                      

smndavoine@msn.com      (Guest house)

nd.la.plaine@wanadoo.fr  (Community)

                          internet

www.bernardine.org/laplainee.html (English)

www.bernardine.org/laplainefrench.html (French)