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Cloister of the Cells (Coimbra) (**) (Part 1)-A History

September 7, 2011 by Castile
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Cloister of the Cells (Coimbra) (**)-History

Did you know ... the Monastery Cells were female and belonging to the Cistercian Order was founded, is the express wish of the Prince Sancha, daughter of D. Sancho I, King of Portugal?
Around the Infanta Sancha and her two sisters led to a popular cult that would lead to his beatification. The Princess Teresa, and Mafalda Sancha created just three notable female Cistercian monasteries: Monastery Lorvão (**), Monastery of Arouca (***) and the monastery with its cloister Cells (**). Teresa and Sancha were beatified in 1705 and in 1792 Mafalda.

mosteiro de celas 300x283 Claustro do Mosteiro de Celas (Coimbra) (**) (1ªparte) A História King Dom Afonso II, despite being a man physically exhausted due to leprosy, ruled in a very innovative for its time, centering on the fate of the country itself, this competition waged a civil war against their sisters.
When his father died, he left in his will to his sister Mafalda, Teresa and Sancha some castles in the center of the country (Montemor-o-Velho, Seia and Alenquer) and their villages, terms, and income acaidarias, designating these queens land. The Princesses battled for recognition, ownership and independence of their land, also gathering troops who joined the causes generating a civil war with the king, his brother, who sought to centralize the kingdom ( read here ).
In relation to the Monastery of Cells, the traveler knows that Dona Sancha in 1213 sent him to do, in their old farmhouse in Guimarães (Vimarannes, or Vimarães Valmeão), on the outskirts of the city of Coimbra.
The Swindon, which had been donated by D. Sancho I, went to get a set of "enceladas" or "walled off" - a group of pious women who lived in isolated cells and small chapels - which has taken on his behalf. Made a vow of chastity and taken the Cistercian habit, Princess Sancha Lorvão would live in until the first "enceladas" Lorvão and nuns should be transferred, in 1219, to the Monastery of Santa Maria de Cells
In the Clausura Cells could live until the day March 13, 1229, after her death, would be transferred to the Monastery of Lorvão (**) according to the instruction of his sister Teresa, who would administer the two convents.

The monastery of the Cistercian monastery of Cells consisted of a small church with a cloister surrounded by small cells. Thus arose his name.
mosteiro de celas 1 300x175 Claustro do Mosteiro de Celas (Coimbra) (**) (1ªparte) A História Here you can read the impressive story of Sancha, the silent (l and r ).
The evolution of the religious community has gone together with the expansion of monastic dependencies, knowing these various periods of restoration, especially in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Extinct religious orders in 1834, the nuns were allowed Bernardas its continuation until the death of the latter, which occurred in the late nineteenth century.
In the nineteenth century, extinct religious orders, part of the monastery was demolished giving rise to different types of occupations: asylum for the blind and crippled the district, Sanatorium Women's Cells and Paediatric Hospital of Coimbra. (Continued).

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