Maredsous Abbey
| Maredsous Abbey | |
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 Abbey church |
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| location |
Belgium Province of Namur |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 18 ′ 8 ″ N , 4 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E |
| founding year | 1872 |
| Mother monastery | Beuron Archabbey |
The Maredsous Abbey ( French : Abbaye Saint-Benoît de Maredsous ) is a Benedictine monastery in the Belgian community of Anhée-Denée near Namur in the Molignée valley , a tributary of the Meuse .
history
The monastery was founded on October 15, 1872 by a foundation of the Desclée family from Tournai and settled with monks from Beuron Abbey , Pope Leo XIII. elevated the priory of Maredsous to the Abbey of the Beuron Congregation in 1878 , whereupon Father Placidus Wolter became the first abbot. In 1890 he was followed by the important Hildebrand de Hemptinne in the Abbatiat, who was already involved in the establishment . After the First World War, the Maredsous monastery was merged with the Keizersberg abbeys in Leuven and Sankt-Andreas in Bruges to form the Belgian Benedictine Congregation in 1920.
With the support of the Belgian industrialists Henri and Jules Desclée, the architect Jean-Baptiste Bethune was commissioned to build a church. Today's monastery complex was built in the neo-Gothic style within 20 years until 1892 . Desiderius Lenz created the Beuron style frescoes for the abbey church on behalf of the Beuron abbot ; later they were expanded by André Weiss and Jacques Malmendier. On November 30, 1890, Abbot Hildebrand de Hemptinne founded a branch of the Beuron art school in Maredsous, which later became the École Saint-Joseph , which has been part of the Namur Art School since 1964.
The abbey has belonged to the Congregation of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary since 1920 .
monastery
The Benedictine Abbey has been continuously settled by the Benedictine order since 1872 . The third abbot of the monastery was Dom Columba Marmion (1858–1923), who was beatified on September 3, 2000 by Pope John Paul II . The current abbot is Dom Bernard Lorent OSB.
The monastery is known for the production of hard cheese Maredsous and licensed by Duvel Moortgat Abbey beer produced Maredsous .
The chapel Notre-Dame de la Pépiole , one of the oldest chapels in Provence in the French Mediterranean parish of Six-Fours-les-Plages , is maintained by the religious order.
Abbots and superiors
- Johannes Blessing, Superior 1872–1874
- Placidus Wolter , Prior 1874–1876
- Gérard van Caloen, prior 1877–1878
- Placidus Wolter, abbot 1878–1890
- Hildebrand de Hemptinne , abbot 1890–1909
- Blessed Columba Marmion , abbot 1909–1923
- Célestin Golenvaux, Abbot 1923–1950
- Godefroid Dayez, Abbot 1950–1968
- Olivier du Roy, Prior 1968–1969
- Olivier du Roy, abbot 1969–1972
- Nicolas Dayez, Prior 1972–1978
- Nicolas Dayez, Abbot 1978–2002
- Bernard Lorent, since 2002
literature
- Daniel Misonne: En parcourant l'histoire de Maredsous , Editions de Maredsous 2005
Web links
- Maredsous Abbey website (fr, nl, de, en)