“You should never move old trees.” Nevertheless, the last four brothers of the Dominican monastery in Zwolle had to leave their home. The 123-year-old complex needs to be renovated and was put up for sale. The four eighty-somethings had no choice but to move. Life in a regular home is especially difficult for brother Dominicus (85), after 63 years in the monastery: “I cried, would rather go back now than tomorrow.”
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The last of the Dominicans have left the monastery in Zwolle: ‘With us the life of the brothers here dies out’
