Montevergine Territorial Abbey

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Montevergine Territorial Abbey
Basic data
Country Italy
Church region Campania
Ecclesiastical province Benevento
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Benevento
Dept Riccardo Luca Guariglia OSB
Dept. Emeritus Beda Umberto Paluzzi OSB
founding 12th Century
surface 3 km²
Parishes 1 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 225 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 225 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 100%
Religious priest 12 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 19th
Friars 18 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 3 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Italian
cathedral Santuario di S. Maria di Montevergine
Website www.santuariodimontevergine.com/
Santuario di Montevergine

The territorial Abbey Mountvirgin ( latin Abbatia territorialis Montisvirginis , Italian Abbazia territorial Montevergine ) is in southern Italy preferred Roman Catholic territorial Abbey of Benedictine based in Mountvirgin on Monte Vergiliano or Vergilio at Avellino in Campania .

history

The Montevergine Abbey was founded by Wilhelm von Vercelli around 1118 and quickly formed its own monastic association throughout the Kingdom of Sicily . It was endowed with royal, papal and episcopal privileges, including the elevation to abbatia nullius by Pope Alexander IV in 1261 with secular and spiritual jurisdiction over various areas. The heyday of the Congregation of Montevergine ended at the beginning of the 14th century. Disagreements about the election of the Abbot General, the loosening of discipline and the appointment of Commendatabbots , such as B. 1430 of Cardinal Hugo-Lancelot of Lusignan , slowed down the further development of the Montevergine monastery and the congregation he founded. It was not until Pope Sixtus V that the abbey was fully independent again in 1588. The by St. Giovanni Leonardi and Pope Paul V carried out the reform from 1596 to 1611, encouraging the Congregation to flourish again with up to 45 monasteries until Napoleon I suppressed it in 1807. Monastic life with 25 monks was only preserved in the parent monastery of Montevergine. a. to preserve the monastery complex and library. The abrogation laws of 1861 and 1866 caused further damage to the congregation. In 1879 the abbey joined the new Benedictine congregation of Subiaco , to which it still belongs today. The Benedictines of Montevergine obey the Constitutions of Subiaco and their own bylaws revised by Paul V. In contrast to the usual Benedictine custom, they wear a white habit . Your abbot is an area abbot member of the Italian Bishops' Conference . The abbey was built on the foundations of an ancient Cybele temple. In the 18th century, the buildings were largely baroque. Between 1952 and 1961 the monastery church was rebuilt.

The Turin Shroud was due to a contract between Victor Emmanuel III. and Pope Pius XII. Hidden in the abbey between 1939 and 1946 to protect it from a possible bombing of Turin and from Adolf Hitler who allegedly wanted to have it stolen.

In 2005 she lost the nine parishes to the Diocese of Avellino due to severe financial difficulties.

Abbots of Montevergine

literature

  • Korbinian Birnbacher : Art. Montevergine , in: LThK , 3rd edition, Vol. 7, special edition, Freiburg 2006, Sp. 443f;
  • Giovanni Mongelli OSB: Montevergine. Dalle origini ai nostri giorni. (Sintesi storica) . Montevergine 1991.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walther Holtzmann : Italia Pontificia IX: Samnium - Apulia - Lucania. Berlin 1962, p. 130
  2. ↑ Bernhard Abend and Anja Schliebitz: Italy, South. 2006, p. 387