!!!Prämonstratenser

Premonstratensians (O Praem), canons. Founded by St. Norbert of 
Xanten in Premontre in 1120, soon spread all over Austria, where they 
dedicated themselves especially to the colonisation and 
Christianisation of the Slavs. Now establishments in Geras (Lower 
Austria, founded around 1153), Schlaegl (Upper Austria, 1218) and 
Wilten near Innsbruck (1138). Until 1783 there were convents of 
Premonstratensian nuns in Vienna, Pernegg (Lower Austria) and Griffen 
(Carinthia).


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