An early member of the community who gave it a wider reputation for sanctity was Blessed Ida of Louvain.

[1] The monastery was ordered closed in 1795, during the French occupation of Belgium, and the nuns were forced off the premises in January 1797.

[2] In 1828 the archivist of the National Archives of Belgium was notified that a pile of old parchment was available from a second-hand clothes dealer in Brussels.

This transpired to be the remains of the monastery's archives, with over a thousand documents, including papal bulls and ducal charters, the oldest going back to 1235.

All that remains of the monastic buildings are a monumental gate, a coach house, an infirmary and an ice cellar.