The Saint Monica Parish and the Romareda High School, with their half-century of life, are the last witnesses of a long and varied presence of the Augustinian Recollects in Aragon, which dates back practically to the foundation of this religious Order.
In 1602 the joint history of the Augustinian Recollects with Aragon began, only fourteen years after this religious Family was born. It has had two distinct chapters separated by an interval of 67 years that goes from the Confiscation in 1835 to the opening of Sos del Rey Católico (Saragossa) in 1902.
The last two ministries opened by the Augustinian Recollects in Aragon are already half a century old; They belong to the Province of Saint Nicholas of Toletine and have their headquarters in the Saragossa neighbourhood of Romareda: the Saint Monica Parish and the Romareda High School, opened respectively in 1972 and 1976.
Both, together with the Valentuñana convent in Sos del Rey Católico, which has belonged to the Province of Our Lady of Candelaria since 1906 and which continues its more than century-old trajectory as a house of spirituality and with care for rural parishes, are the three communities of the Recollects in Aragon today.
This report focuses on the Parish of Saint Monica, which represented the entry of the Recollects into the urban pastoral sphere, accompanying a neighbourhood that was born and developing, creating an ecclesial community and society with its action.
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