Complex sentence: The general decline of Roman Catholicism in Western Europe and especially in Flanders started to affect the abbey of Averbode as well though, and the works on the new abbey in Brazil were stopped, and the college of Jaú was closed down.
Split into simpler sentences: The general decline of Roman Catholicism in Western Europe and especially in Flanders started to affect the abbey of Averbode as well though. The work on the new abbey in Brazil was stopped and the college of Jaú was closed down.