Maison Dieu

Maison Dieu is a medical institution, monastery, hostel, retirement domestic and royal resort commissioned with the aid of Henry III in 1234. The timber framed constructing is located beside Watling Street, now the A2 road, in Ospringe, Faversham, in Kent, England. Edward Hasted referred to in 1798 that it was devoted to the Virgin Mary. The basis consisted of a grasp and three everyday brethren of the Order of the Holy Cross. There have been additionally two secular clerks, who celebrated mass for the soul of the founder and the souls of his royal predecessors and successors.

They were required to be hospitable, and to entertain the bad and needy passers-via and pilgrims. There become a chamber within the building which the king used to rest while he passed this way; it was known as Camera Regis, or the king's chamber. The records and facts of the constructing also deliver perception into the manner ill and disabled human beings equipped into society for the duration of the medieval period. For instance, in 1235 the 'blind daughter of Andrew of Faversham' was admitted to Maison Dieu as a 'servant of God and sister of the health facility'. You can explore and experience this place more.