"Work sets you free" The words on the gate of Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Visiting this desecrated ground leaves you in a state of shock and melancholy. I felt a gruesome malaise come over me as I wandered the grounds. You see the bunk houses, prison cells, gas chambers, and ovens. You're faced with the macabre photos taken from a time when the camp was active. You see every dark corner of humanity in this place. You feel the fear and desperation. You never forget. Then, tucked at the far end of the empty grounds you find a convent. Definitely not what I was expecting to find. Beyond the northern wall of the Memorial Site, behind the Mortal Agony of Christ Chapel, is the Carmelite Convent of the Precious Blood. The order of the Discalced Carmelites was founded by Saint Teresa of Ávila in the sixteenth century. The Carmelite nun Sister Maria Theresia deliberately chose the former Dachau concentration camp because of the horrors that took place here – it was to become a place of offering and prayer, and so establish a living symbol of hope. #worksetsyoufree #dachau #concentrationcamp #memorial #carmelite #nun #preciousblood #mortal #agony #symbolofhope #convent #nunnery #prayers (at Dachau concentration camp) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVbS6x7riAq/?utm_medium=tumblr