Landévennec Abbey
The Abbey Saint-Guénolé von Landévennec (French Abbaye Saint Guénolé de Landévennec ) is a French Benedictine abbey in Landévennec near Plomodiern in the Finistère department , Brittany . It is dedicated to St. Guengalaenus .
history
The monastery was founded by Irish monks in AD 485. From 818 the monastery followed the Benedictine rule and ran an important scriptorium . The old Romanesque abbey church was built between 1050 and 1100. Coming since the early 16th century , the abbey was attached to the Maurinian Congregation in 1636 . Abolished during the French Revolution in 1789, the monastery buildings were destroyed shortly afterwards. In the immediate vicinity of the ruins of the old abbey, the Benedictine monastery was re-established in 1958 by relocating the convent from Kerbénéat monastery (in Plounéventer ) to Landévennec and building a new monastery. The new Saint-Guénolé Abbey Church was consecrated in 1965. Today's monks belong to the Sublazese Congregation of the Benedictine Order .
The Morne-Saint-Benoît priory in Haiti , founded in 1981 and located about 65 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince, belongs to the Abbey of Saint-Guénolé Landévennec . The monastery was spared in the severe earthquake in Haiti in 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ^ “Benedictine monastery in Haiti not destroyed by the earthquake” , orden-online.de, January 15, 2010
literature
- D. Andrejewski (Ed.): Les abbayes bretonnes . Rennes 1983, 73-85.
Web links
- Website of the Benedictine Abbey of Landévennec (French)
- Brittany Architecture: The Landévennec Abbey
- Film about monastic life in Landévennec Abbey
Coordinates: 48 ° 17'26 " N , 4 ° 16'10" W.