CARMEL DE BESSINES
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Carmel de Bessines, hosting groups for sessions and with 2 rooms to receive women for retreats
Eight nuns from the Monastery of the Incarnation, located in Paris, founded the Carmelite convent in 1648. The mother of one of the Carmelites, Catherine Gobin de Niort, acquired a hotel in Niort. On this site, the architect Le Duc built a large monastery which housed, throughout the 18th century, about twenty sisters. After the Revolution, the Carmelites could not return to their monastery, which was sold as national property. In accordance with the wishes of Bishop Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, five Carmelites moved into a small house in the Rue de Strasbourg in 1858. The construction of the monastery lasted from 1858 to 1868. Following the anti-clerical laws, the Carmelites took refuge (from 1901) in Belgium and returned to France in 1919. In 1940, during the war, the Carmelites of Niort welcomed a Belgian community from Corioule. Then in 1955, the community welcomed 16 Carmelites from Hanoi for two years, who later left to found the Carmelite convent of Dolbeau in Canada. In 2006, the Carmelites of Niort decided to build a new monastery better adapted to the current needs of the community and less cumbersome to maintain. Located on a 2.5 hectare site at the gateway to the Marais Poitevin, the new monastery in Bessines was inaugurated in 2009 by Monsignor Rouet, Archbishop of Poitiers. At present, the community is made up of 9 Carmelites and a postulant. It welcomes groups for sessions from time to time and has two rooms for women's retreats.
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