Klosterneuburg Abbey is a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of the Catholic Church located in the town of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Overlooking the Danube, just north of the present Vienna
Klosterneuburg Abbey seen from south
Planned appearance of Klosterneuburg Monastery after extension (1774)
Large wine barrels in the cellars of the abbey
The Canons Regular are Catholic priests and religious brothers who live in community under a rule and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms
Klosterneuburg Abbey
…Klosterneuburg Abbey (German: Stift Klosterneuburg) is a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of the Catholic Church located in the town of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Overlooking the Danube, just north of the present Vienna city…
Visitation memento mori, painter unknown, c.1500, juxtaposing pregnancy and death, with four Augustinan canons regular of the Chapter (Abbey) of Sion. Left, with little lion, is Jerome; right, holding a heart, is Augustine. Rijksmuseum
Bishop Chrodegang of Metz
Ballybeg Priory, founded in 1229 by Philip de Barry for the Canons Regular of St Augustine
Abbess Joanna van Doorselaer de ten Ryen, Waasmunster Roosenberg Abbey.