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Stiepel Priory

Bochum, Italy

Stiepel Priory

Stiepel Priory is a Cistercian monastery in Stiepel in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1988 at the instigation of Franz Hengsbach, first Bishop of the Diocese of the Ruhr. It is a dependent house of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria. The priory church is also a Marian pilgrim

age site to Our Lady of Sorrows.

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