Wagga's former Carmelite Monastery has faced unusual challenges in preparing its buildings and grounds for sale after 53 years of practicing self-reliance.
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Four of the Catholic order's nuns have been buried on the grounds of the Ashmont monastery over the last 10 years, laid at rest in grave sites near the chapel.
Former Wagga Monastery Superior of the House Sister Maria told The Daily Advertiser that the nuns had now been buried in the city's lawn cemetery.
"Before we left Wagga, those graves were re-interred in the Law Cemetery at Wagga in the section for religious," she said.
"We were able to view them in the place there at the lawn cemetery and that was all finalised before we left Wagga, and understandably that had to be done.
"The families have all been informed of that transition, which very sadly had to be done."
A dwindling intake of nuns forced the order to close the monastery late last year.
The monastery held a final mass in November that saw the chapel overflowing with worshipers.
The four nuns originally buried at the monastery were Sister Bernadette Napthine, who died in 2009; Sister Ignatius Walsh, who died in 2007, Sister Marie Bernard Broderick, who died in 2006; and sister Mary Joy Taaffe, who died in 2016.
Sister Maria said sister Bernadette, Walsh and Broderick were among the first nuns to live at the Wagga monastery when it was first opened.
The Carmelite nuns became well-known across Wagga for their fundraising fetes and lamington sales.
Sister Maria, who has departed Wagga to live at the Carmelite's head monastery in Melbourne, said she could not provide much information about progress on a sale.
"Our agent is at work on our behalf and it all depends on the outcome of interested parties and negotiations," she said.
"At this stage, I'm in no position to say one way or the other until the expressions of interest come in.
"Our dear hope is the development in the future of that property will continue in the caring and spiritual way in which it was founded. It is a war memorial shrine to Our Lady, Queen of Peace.
"Our aspirations and our hopes for the future of the monastery are very much in that line of development."
When work first began on constructing the Wagga monastery in 1966 the site was surrounded by empty grassland.
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The site now occupied six acres among suburban housing just off the Sturt Highway.
Sister Maria said the monastery had been "of central importance to the Riverina" over 53 years.
"A lot of people are very interested and, no doubt, very concerned as to the future of the property," she said.
"That's as much as I can say because that's as much as I know at this stage."
Sister Maria said the order had received a lot of messages of support following the monastery's closure.
"A very heartbroken community of friends share our own tremendous sadness in the fact that we had to close it, but we can only live in the circumstances in which we do live and not in the headspace in which we would rather like to be," she said.
"It's a matter of living life in the flow of life and maintaining a very, very strong trust in God; that He is as faithful to us in the future as He has been in the past."