Saint-Jean-au-Bois

photo: Hermann Herzog

                                      

                                                              

                          name

Saint-Jean-au-Bois -> Saint-Jean-des-Bois

latin name

S. Johannes in Nemore

founded in

1169

inhabited by

monks

primary abbey

Morimond

mother abbey

Belmont (Lebanon)

daughter abbeys


dissolved in

1290

reinhabited by

Armenian monks, since 1679 Franciscans

to visit


address

 

 

 

Church of the Visitation 

Ein Karem

95744 Jerusalem

Israel

phone

(02) 6417291

fax


email


internet

via www.custodia.org