Restless are our hearts, until they rest in - Gast im Kloster

Zirc Cistercian Abbey
H-8420 Zirc
Rákóczi tér 1
(T) +36 88 593-673
(F) +36 88 593-830
zirc@kloesterreich.at
www.ocist.hu
Praying the hours
Sunday at 7.00 a.m., 8.30
a.m. and 10.00 a.m. | Daily
evening mass at 6.00 p.m.
during winter and at 7.00
p.m. during summer |
Confessions before or during
the evening prayers at 5.45
p.m. during winter or at
6.45 p.m. during summer
Spiritual
accompaniment
Hungary
Zirc Abbey
The Cistercian abbey of Zirc has been
founded in 1182 by King Bela III. On
his request, monks from the Clairvaux/Burgundy
district settled at the abbey in
the Bakony forests. During the course of the
16th and 17th centuries, the flourishing religious
and cultural centre was gradually destroyed.
A community of Cistercian monks from the
area of Heinrichau/Silesia in Germany started
rebuilding the abbey in 1699 in Baroque style,
which had had a lasting effect on the surroundings
of Zirc. In 1982, the church was raised to
the status of Basilica minor by Pope Johannes
Paul II.
Throughout its changing course of history,
the abbey of Zirc has remained faithful to its
core mission as a spiritual regional centre.
Locals have had the continuous benefit of
Spiritual accompaniment and the deep rooting
of their faith in the abbey; visitors on the main
road 82 Györ-Pannonhalma-Zirc-Veszprém-
Balaton are welcome to stop at the abbey as a
place for spiritual rest, peace and insight into
the history of God and His people.
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