St. Nicholas Monastery ( Dutch. Klooster van de Helige Nicolaas , also Russian Orthodox Monastery in Hemelum , Dutch. Russisch Orthodoxe Klooster van Hemelum ) is an Orthodox male monastery of the Hague and Netherlands diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church , located in the village of in Friesland [1] .
| Monastery | |
| Nicholas Monastery | |
|---|---|
| Klooster van de Helige Nicolaas | |
 | |
| A country |  Netherlands |
| Village | Hemelum , Friesland |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | The Hague and Netherlands Diocese |
| Abbot | Onufry (Willant) |
| Website | kloosterhemelum.nl |
Patronal feast - December 6 (19)
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Shrines
- 3 notes
- 4 References
History
The monastery was founded in the summer of 1999 by two Dutch brothers, immigrants from Friesland - Hieromonk Onufry and Hieromonk Eusebius , who returned to the Netherlands from the Yablochinsky Monastery ( Poland ) and began with volunteers to reconstruct the building of the former Protestant (Reformed) church dating from 1889. The newly-built monastery was named in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker , as well as the Catholic monastery that existed earlier in Hemelum in the 12th-15th centuries.
On February 20, 2001, the main temple of the monastery was consecrated by the Bishop of Brussels and Belgium and temporarily by the Hague and Netherlands Simon (Ishunin) , who placed the relics of St. George Hosevita under the throne of the temple.
Shrines
The monastery contains particles of the relics of the companions of St. Boniface, who were killed with him in Dokkum in 754, and St. Gregory , the former Bishop of Utrecht in the VIII century, who was one of the famous disciples of St. Boniface.
Notes
Links
- The official website of the St. Nicholas Monastery in Hemelum (nid.) (Rum .)
- Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Hemelum on the official website of the Belgian Diocese