From where comes the name B&B Symforosa
Symforosa is the main character from the novel by Felix Timmermans’ Very clean hours of Miss Symforosa, Beguine “and falls in love with the gardener Martienus …
Here is the short story of Symforosa or Symphorosa
Symforosa is a young Beguine, a religious woman who is not a strict monastic vows but has made a pious life would lead.
She is in love with the gardener Martienus. These notes, however, and decides not to be fraternal.
Symforosa is unfortunate for, and she gives her “mistress” admission to beeweg going to the monastery where Martienus is.
And then the turning point: “All selfishness is gone. Z’is glad because he is happy. Martienus [...]. She loved for him to marry, that they know now. But now she has seen in his society and in this spiritual happiness, this is all suddenly wiped out. ”
Timmermans tells this story in a sober way, but the characters and the feelings of the characters are warm and intimate show. Many still regard as his best novel.
And for those who still want to read more, just to stay at the Begijnhof in Diksmuide in one of the best B & B’s! The novella by Felix Timmermans is on every room …