The 400 Year Old Monastery of Bernaga has just been burned to ashes & now lies in ruins

More than 20 nuns were evacuated from a historic monastery in Italy after the building went up in flames.

A huge fire tore through the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery, in La Valletta Brianza, near Milan, at the weekend.

The 22 nuns who lived there were evacuated without any injuries, but priceless artworks and religious artefacts were destroyed.

Nine firefighting teams were sent to attempt to extinguish the fire.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nuns-flee-blazing-monastery-italy-145631621.html

The fire broke out around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11 as the nuns — part of the Ambrosian hermitages of the Order of St. Ambrose ad Nemus — were watching a live television stream of Pope Leo XIV’s prayer vigil for peace in St. Peter’s Square. The women all escaped without harm, but the monastery, which was built in 1628, was nearly destroyed. Nine firefighting teams intervened to put out the blaze.

The Archdiocese of Milan reported that the fire destroyed documents, religious artifacts, and the nuns’ personal belongings, though the religious sisters managed to save some paintings and a relic of St. Carlo Acutis, who received his first holy Communion at the monastery on June 16, 1998.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267117/fire-damages-historic-italian-monastery-where-st-carlo-acutis-received-first-communion

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