Posted on 03/23/2022 6:30:35 PM PDT by ebb tide
The 15th century Santa Caterina Benedictine monastery in Perugia, Italy, will be closed after an unexpected February Apostolic Visitation. The five nuns, not all of them old, will be transferred to other monasteries. They were expecting a postulant.
“The visitor found everything in order, except that we are not vaccinated,” Abbess Mother Catherine, a former scientific researcher, told LaNuovaBQ.it (March 22): “I can confirm that this is the only explanation they gave me at the end of the Apostolic Visitation.”
The strictly cloistered nuns ran a bookbinding business. Some time ago, when Mother Catherina visited Perugia Cardinal Bassetti for some paper work she was suddenly informed that an Apostolic Vistiation was underway but Bassetti claimed he didn't know the reason.
The visitation was performed by Sister Cristiani Ianni of the Poor Claires of Orvieto who didn't find any problems with the liturgy, the formation and the financial situation.
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