Bellefontaine Abbey

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Bellefontaine Abbey (Latin Abbatia BM de Bellofonte ) is a French Trappist abbey in Bégrolles-en-Mauges , Maine-et-Loire , Diocese of Angers , not far from Cholet .

history

Notre Dame de Bellefontaine Monastery was Benedictine from the 12th to the 17th century , and from 1642 until it was repealed by the French Revolution it served as the monastery of the Feuillanten . In 1816 the Trappist Urbain Guillet , who had returned from North America, bought the remains of the monastery on behalf of Augustin de Lestrange and founded a community that developed successfully. Since 1966 the abbey has maintained the publishing house "Éditions Monastiques Abbaye de Bellefontaine" with a focus on oriental spirituality.

Foundations

The Bellefontaine Abbey was founded as follows:

Men

(supportive) women

Abbots

  • 1115–1149: Pierre I.
  • 1150–1168: Gérard I.
  • 1168-1170: Chrétien
  • 1170-1173: Bruno
  • 1173–1187: Jean I.
  • 1187-1200: Gérard II.
  • 1200-1223: Jean II.
  • 1223-12 ?? : Pierre II.
  • 12 ?? - 1345: Pierre III.
  • 1345-1403: Pierre IV.
  • 1403-1429: Thibaud
  • 1429-14 ?? : Louis I.
  • 14 ?? - 1488: Robert I.
  • 1488-1525: Robert II. De L'Espinose
  • 1525-1539: Pierre V. Lambert
  • 1539-1552: Guillaume I. Menier
  • 1552–1558: Guillaume II. Goupilleau
  • 1558-1564: vacancy
  • 1565–1595: Charles I de Bourbon, prince de La Roche-sur-Yon
  • 1595–1598: Nicolas de Thou
  • 1598–1602: Jacques-Auguste de Thou
  • 1602-1609: René Maquenon
  • 1610–1642: Simon de La Lucière
  • 1642–1649: Michel I. Sublet d'Heudicourt
  • 1649–1680: Henri de Bruc de Montplaisir
  • 1680–1704: Jean-François de Bruc de Montplaisir
  • 1704–1709: Charles II. Marcien de Druy
  • 1709–1710: François I. Le Roy de Chavigny
  • 1710-1720: Louis II. De Balzac d'Entragues
  • 1721–1735: François II. Mareschal
  • 1735-1736: vacancy
  • 1737-1754: Guillaume III. Geoffroy-Jean-Pierre de Blanes de Millas
  • 1754–1789: Pierre VI. Léonard de Luage

Upper

  • 1816-1817: Urbain Guillet
  • 1817–1828: Michel II Le Port

Abbots

  • 1828-1830: Michel II Le Port
  • 1830-1845: Fulgence Guillaume
  • 1845-1850: Augustin de La Forest de Divonne
  • 1850-1866: Fulgence Guillaume
  • 1866–1930: Jean-Marie Chouteau (abbot for 63 years!)
  • 1930–1936: Jean-Baptiste Auger
  • 1936–1952: Gabriel Sortais
  • 1952-1987: Emmanuel Coutant
  • 1987-2004: Etienne Baudry
  • 2004-: Jean-Marc Chéné

See also

literature

  • Brother Bernard-Marie, "Presentation of the monastic editions de l'abbaye de Bellefontaine". In: Liens cisterciens 26, 2014, pp. 41–46.
  • Immo Eberl , The Cistercians. History of a European Order , Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007, pp. 487–488.
  • Leopold Janauschek , Originum Cisterciensium. Tomus I , Vienna, Alfred Hoelder, 1877, S. LXXIV.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965), Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 , Paris, Cerf, 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (passim).
  • Philippe Méry, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France , La Roche sur Yon, Editions du Crapaud, 2013 (p. 399, with picture).
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012 (page 274, with pictures).

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Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 0 ° 56 ′ 18.7 ″  W.