Brialmont Trappist Abbey

Charles Van der Cruyssen, Abbot of the newly settled Abbey of Orval in 1926, and Thomas Louis Heylen, Bishop of Namur, founded the Société des Bernardines Réparatrices in 1934 in two priories in Sorée, Gesves, and Saint-Gérard, Mettet, with a group of postulants as a response to the encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor by Pope Pius XI. The society, which became a congregation in 1936, lived according to the Cistercian rite from 1939 and celebrated the solemn profession of seven nuns in 1941. In 1961, the community moved from Sorée to Brialmont in Tilff, south of Liège. The monastery Notre Dame de Brialmont was elevated to an abbey and officially incorporated into the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance in 1975. In 1976, the community from Saint-Gérard also moved to Brialmont. Pope John Paul II visited the monastery in May 1985. The monastery primarily derives its livelihood from its own mushroom cultivation.

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