Klášter milosrdných sester brněnských (Veveří) Monastery

The monastery of the merciful sisters of Brno is located in Grohova Street in Brno - the centre next to the Church of the Holy Family. It is a complex complex which has grown gradually over a century and is linked to the work of the Congregation of the Merciful Sisters of the Order of St. Francis under the protection of the Holy Family in Brno.

The congregation was founded in today's Grohova Street No. 18 between 1889 and 1890. A three-story building with a chapel on the ground floor was originally built by the Red Cross Association as a shelter for sick nurses. The congregation bought it back in 1906 and made it its seat. Ten years later, in 1897, the nurses bought the rental house No. 14, where they opened the nursing school in 1936, which meant a significant expansion of their activities in social and health services.

The centre of the complex consists of the Church of the Holy Family. The ground for its construction was created by the purchase and demolition of the house No. 16 in 1891. The temple was built between 1900 and 1902 and became the centre of the monastery complex. In 1908 the congregation purchased additional land on which it had built the House of the Holy Family in 1927 (No.10 and 12), thereby further expanding capacity for its activities.

World War II left a deep mark on the monastery grounds. During the bombing in 1944, the complex was destroyed - the house No. 14 was not saved and had to be torn down. In the next few years, namely from 1947 to 1951, a new building was built in its place. The Church of the Holy Family was also repaired, and it was given a new facade, which was united with the architecture of the surrounding houses to create a more harmonious look blokPre.

The late '50s meant a major break. The nurses worked here continuously until 1958, when they were terminated. The area was then converted into a boarding school for pupils of health schools and the monastery stopped being a place of monastery life. This period lasted three decades.

1990 brought a major turn. The congregation regained the site and started its re-use. The same year, the high school of health was opened. In 1992, the rectified Church of the Holy Family was made available to the public. A year later, in 1993, a boarding school was set up for high school pupils. Finally, in 1994, the sisters themselves returned to the repaired monastery, which closed a long cycle and the monastery returned to its original mission.

Today, the monastery of the merciful sisters of Brno is a live centre of the sister community, which continues the tradition of health and social care in the heart of Brno. The area with its church and adjacent buildings bears witness to long history, full of commitment and suffering.