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With the growing membership of members of the nobility among the nuns starting in the 12th century, the community gradually changed its character from its monastic one until it had become a community of canonesses regular by the 15th century, at the latest. At that point, the church acquired its status of collegiate church.
Claudine Donnay-Rocmans writes in the Patrimoine majeur de Wallonie that the interior dimensions recall: "the splendour of the Ottonianliturgy, as people are able to know it from the Abbey of Essen (Germany)".[1]
The westwork has been reconstructed. Its current appearance is the result of a long reconstruction finished in 1984, following severe damage from bombing by the German Luftwaffe in May 1940, in the course of the Battle of Belgium.
Noble Canonesses of Nivelles
A noble canonesse of Nivelles
The noble chapter of the canonesses regular became very known and had important privileges. Most of the noble canonesses were daughters of important families.
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