Recollect Nuns, Followers of the Rule of Saint Fructuosus of Braga
Author: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, ca. 1660-1714
Image Title: Recollect Nuns, Followers of the Rule of Saint Fructuosus of Braga
Description: This etched print features a nun of the Augustinian Recollects, a strict branch of the Augustinian Hermits, started in Spain. Their first house was founded at Talavera in 1589, and other monasteries were soon established in many parts of the country. The author traces their legacy to the monastic reform work of Fructuousus (d. 665 CE), Archbishop of Braga, in the 7th century AD. After the death of his parents, Fructuousus retired as a hermit to a desert in Galicia. Among the numerous monasteries he founded after this move was one for 80 virgins under the abbess Benedicta, which the author considers a forerunner of the 16th-century Augustinian Recollect nuns.
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