Convent of Bethany

The Augustinian Convent of Bethany existed in Mechelen, Belgium, from 1421 to 1783.

[1] It belonged to the Congregation of Windesheim.

[2] A notable occupant of the convent was Jacoba of Loon-Heinsberg, formerly the abbess of the Thorn Abbey in what is now the Netherlands, who withdrew to Bethany in 1455.

[3] Her 1468 will indicates that a printing press was left to the convent.

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