Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours
The Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours (also: Abtei Blauvac ; Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae Boni Auxilii ) is a Trappist convent in the municipality of Blauvac in the Vaucluse department in France, in the Archdiocese of Avignon . The abbey has existed in this place since 1991 and today (as of 2009) has sixteen nuns and a lay sister. The community makes a living by making hosts .
Monastery life in Blauvac
The abbey has a public part with conference rooms, a small shop in which religious literature and products from various monasteries are offered, as well as a small exhibition room in which historical equipment for the manufacture of hosts and photographs from the everyday work of the nuns are shown, a monastery garden and one in 2006 built, very simple monastery church. The rooms in which the hosts are made and the enclosure are not open to the public.
history
The order has a checkered history with numerous spin-offs and relocations.
French Cistercian monks from La Trappe , who had to leave the country as a result of the French Revolution , founded an order of "strict observance" in Valsainte , which has often been called Trappists since then . The first corresponding women's order was founded in Sembrancher in the canton of Valais as early as 1796 . Due to the advance of the revolutionary troops, the nuns had to flee in January 1798 and reached Petite Riedera (1805) via Lemberg , Darfeld (1800), Villardvolard ( Canton of Friborg , 1802) and Grande Riedera (1804 ).
In 1816 the first groups of the order return to France. After brief unsuccessful attempts to establish itself in Forge near Mortagne-au-Perche and Frénouville ( Calvados department ), the order found a warm welcome in Vaise ( Lyon ) in 1817 . In 1834 the order was moved to Maubec near Montélimar , where it remained until 1991. When the city of Montélimar expands to the limits of the monastery, the nuns seek a quieter environment and move the monastery to Blauvac.
The abbess is currently mother Anne-Emmanuelle Devêche (since 1999).
literature
- Sœur Juliette. Deux siècles de notre histoire. Blauvac 2005
Web links
- www.abbaye-blauvac.com
- L'Histoire cistercienne-trappiste, de la Révolution française, 1790, à nos jours (French)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 44 ° 1 ′ 19 ″ N , 5 ° 11 ′ 59 ″ E