Summary Page: Former House
Name: Nyulakszigete, S. Michael
Circary at the Time: Hungaria
Years of Activity: <1225-ca. 1526
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Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 454)
Approximate modern location: On an island (called the Isle of Lepers) in the Danube in near-central Budapest, now referred to as Margitsziget, Hungary.
Elm-Number [See below]: 356*
Other Comments: This was a renowned Priory, and its zeal and pastoral efforts were prodigious. One of the most active houses of the Circary. There is still a famous health spa located on this island-park, as well as a Dominican Convent founded in the 13th century (St. Margaret, one of their nuns, lies interred here - the origin of the modern name Margit sziget).
* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.