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Province of Upper Germany Ex

from January 2013 the two Provinces of Germany merged into one province called German Province click here to know more about the German Province

In the earliest extant Constitutions of the Carmelite Order the German Province ranks eighth of ten Provinces. By 1294 it had been divided, probably only recently, into Lower and Upper Germany. In the first half of the 14th century this division was several times rescinded and renewed and became definite in 1348.

The Upper German Province extended over a vast territory comprising not only Eastern Germany but Bohemia (Czech Rep.), Austria, Hungary and Poland. This unmanageable mass was reduced in 1411 when the Province of Bohemia was constituted from the convents in Bohemia, Poland, Prussia, Hungary, Saxony and Thuringia. However, the Hussite wars disturbed this arrangement. In 1440 the houses remaining in Bohemia and those in Poland and Hungary reverted to the Province of Upper Germany. The houses in Saxony also became a separate Province. In 1462 the Province of Poland and Bohemia was reconstituted.

Of the two German Provinces Upper Germany suffered the most from the Protestant Reformation. Fourteen of its twenty-six convents were lost; the four Hungarian convents fell victim to the Turks after the battle of Mohacs (1526). The suppression of religious Orders by Napoleon in 1803 left only the house of Straubing, where the surviving religious were allowed to remain as long as they lived. Only Peter Heitzer remained when King Louis I of Bavaria in 1841 permitted the convent to be re-opened. From this single vocation the Province gradually revived and was again constituted in 1922. In 1951 the Province undertook an apostolate in Paranà, Brazil. This Province is also responsible for the Indian foundation which has seven convents founded during these last 20 years.

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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:08

XVI Council of Provinces - Travel Details

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1. From Milano Malpensa, take the bus to the train station in Milan.
Bus services leave from outside the Terminal 1 Arrivals area. To Milan Central Station the Malpensa Shuttle departs every twenty minutes from 06.20 to 00.15. Journey time is around an hour. Fare: € 7.00.
From Milano Centrale there are trains every hour to Desenzano del Garda (train for Venice) at five minutes past the hour. The journey takes one hour and 7 minutes.
 
2. From Verona Airport, take the bus to Verona rail station (Porta Nuova).
From Verona Porta Nuova to Desenzano del Garda, there are trains every 30 minutes and the trip takes about half an hour.
 
3. From Brescia Airport, take the train to Brescia Centrale rail station.
From Brescia Station there are trains every hour to Desenzano del Garda and the journey takes 15 minutes.
 
Useful links:
Milan Malpensa www.malpensa.it
Italian Rail  www.trenitalia.it
 
Please let me know what time you expect to arrive in Desenzano so that
you can be met and taken to S. Felice.
There are also taxis from Desenzano rail station to S. Felice
which would cost at least € 50.
 

Mario Alfarano O.Carm.
seggen @ ocarm.org

Published in The Council of Provinces 2009
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:01

XVI Council of Provinces

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Embracing His Gospel: Carmelite Community in Faith, Hope and Love
3rd - 12th September 2009
“Il Carmine”, San Felice del Benaco, Italy.

 
► Convocation of the XVI Council of Provinces
► Embracing his Gospel: The Carmelite Community in Faith, Hope and Charity
    Four meetings of reflection and prayer for deepening the community dimension
    of the Charism of our Order
► Travel Details
Published in The Council of Provinces 2009
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