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Excommunicated Poor Clares leave convent ahead of court-ordered eviction

The excommunicated Poor Clares of Belorado have left their convent just ahead of a scheduled March 12 eviction, putting an end to a nearly two-year legal battle with the Archdiocese of Burgos in Spain.The sisters announced their split from the Catholic Church in May 2024, leading to their excommunication a month later. Since then, they have faced allegations of financial misconduct, leading to the brief arrest of the community’s superior in Nove…

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Still pending are the demands for eviction of the monasteries of Orduña and Derio and several judicial proceedings for the sale of gold and works of art of the monastery and the treatment of the majorsThe former nuns of Belorado leave the monastery hours before their eviction The Archbishopric of Burgos has found the monastery of Santa Clara de Belorado (Burgos), from which the former schismatic nuns have left this morning hours before the evict…

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The former nuns of Belorado have left the burgalese monastery only a few hours before the deadline given by the Court of Instance of Briviesca (Burgos), this Thursday, March 12, for them to voluntarily evict the cenobio or they would be evicted.As reported by their spokesman, Francisco Canals, the former nuns have left the monastery at 02:46h and after carrying out a symbolic act in which the exabbess, Laura García de Viedma, has extinguished on…

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“The light has gone out in Belorado, but another light has gone on for the nuns,” they say. More information: The former nuns of Belorado value going abroad: they receive proposals from New York, France or Belgium

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The former nuns definitely leave the monastery after a judicial battle of months and a succession of scandals.

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pillarcatholic.com broke the news in on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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