Saint-Mesmin de Micy Abbey

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Saint-Mesmin de Micy Abbey in 1707 (Louis Boudan)

The Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy was a Benedictine monastery in what is now the parish of Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin in the Loiret department in France . Carmelites have lived there since 1939 .

history

6th and 7th centuries

According to the Vita Maximini from the 9th century, St. Euspicius, archpriest from Verdun, appeared before King Clovis I , who had come to the city to punish it for a rebellion. After pardoning the city, the king took Euspicius and his nephew Mesmin (Maximin) into his service. In 508, Euspicius withdrew from public life and received from the king the vacant royal villa Micy near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and Loiret rivers to found a monastery. The king endowed the foundation with further property, including a plot of land called Alleu de Saint-Mesmin within the city of Orléans as a place of refuge . Since the deeds of gift in this regard are forgeries, the Vita Maximini's report should also be just a legend.

Euspicius died on June 10, 510 and was buried in Orléans in the church of Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs, later the Basilica of Saint-Aignan , at the side of Saint Aignan of Orléans . Mesmin took over the management of the monastery, he died on December 15, 520.

The first monastery was located within an enclosure wall and consisted of coenobitic cells and two large buildings, St. Stephen's Church and a community house. The monks followed the Rule of Saint Anthony and Saint Basil brought to the West by John Cassianus and Martin of Tours . The historian Jean Mabillon has noted that among the 30 monks on the abbey's death list there are 26 saints, some of which gave their names to a number of parishes: Saint-Mesmin (7), Saint-Avit ( 20), Saint-Brice (14), Saint-Calais (2), Saint-Dié (1), Saint-Doulchard (1), Saint-Fraimbault (3), Saint-Front (11), Saint-Gault (2 ), Saint-Léonard (9), Saint-Lyé (2), Saint-Rigomer (1), Saint-Ulphace (1) and Saint-Viâtre (1).

From the end of the year 593, after the death of the fifth abbot, Mesmin the Younger, the names of abbots were no longer known for almost 200 years. The continued existence of the abbey is beyond doubt, as donation deeds from kings Dagobert I and Theuderich III. exist. Around 675 the corpses of Saints Mesmin the Elder, Theodemir and Mesmin the Younger were reburied in the city of Orléans.

8th century

Bishop Theodulf von Orléans was also head of Fleury , Micy, Saint-Aignan and Saint-Liphard in Meung-sur-Loire , but not a regular abbot with regard to Micys, but only beneficiary of the income. Nevertheless, he introduced the Benedictine rule here , for which he received twelve monks from Benedict von Aniane to support him.

16th Century

François de la Rochefoucauld (1558–1645), Bishop of Clermont , received Micy Abbey in 1598 as Commendatarabbot . The completion of the work to restore the buildings in 1606 goes back to him. In the following year, after he was made cardinal, with the consent of the Pope, he had the monks living there, whose lifestyle had drawn criticism, through Cistercians from the Congregation of Feuillanten founded in 1583 , i.e. H. from Les Feuillants Abbey in Toulouse . The protest of the expelled Benedictines meant that the new monks could not be solemnly installed until December 10, 1608.

Coat of arms of the Feuillants in Saint-Mesmin

In 1790, during the Revolution , the abbey was dissolved. Today it is completely destroyed. Using the last remaining stones from the abbey, the Croix de Micy was built in Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin in 1858 in memory of the monastery. The Order of the Carmelites of Orléans, founded in 1617, settled in 1939 on the site of the former abbey.

The Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes in the CNRS owns a Bible and two missals from the abbey, which date from the middle of the 13th century, and a breviary from the 17th century,

List of Abbots

Regular abbots

  • Saint Euspicius, 508-510
  • Saint Mesmin the Elder, 510-520
  • Saint Avitus, 520-523
  • Holy Theodemir, 523–552
  • Saint Mesmin the Younger, 552-593
  • The names of the abbots for the period from 593 to 770 are not known
  • Garatholène, 770
  • Dructesinde, 814
  • Jonas, 822
  • Héric, 828
  • Pierre I, 840
  • Amaury I, 865
  • Frédric, 895
  • Létalde, 907
  • Thierry, 937
  • Benoit I., 942
  • Benoît II, 946
  • Jacob, 949
  • Annon, 950
  • Amaury II, 973
  • Robert I., 994
  • Constantine, 1011
  • Albert I., 1018
  • Foulques I, 1036
  • Raoul, 1050
  • Foulques II, 1059
  • Chrétien, 1075
  • Garnier, 1110
  • Etienne, 1116
  • Albert II, 1120
  • Hugues, 1130
  • Guillaume I., 1149
  • Gautier I., 1163
  • André, 1171
  • Lancelin, 1182
  • Humbaud, 1202
  • Jean I, 1218
  • Francon, 1220
  • Evrard, 1237
  • Berthier, 1242
  • Adam de Soisy, 1256
  • NN, 1274
  • Guillaume II. De l'Aunay, 1297
  • Jean II, 1320
  • Gautier II, 1350
  • Julien le Rolleur, 1366
  • Laumer de l'Isle, 1396
  • Jean III de Mornay, 1420
  • Pierre II. De Coihart, 1438
  • Robert II de Villequier, 1448
  • Jean IV d'Eschines, 1453
  • Louis Ajasson, 1489

Commendati abbots

literature

  • Jacques Charles, Quelques réflexions sur les origines de l'abbaye de Micy-lez-Orléans, Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, pp. 395-401, 1975
  • Eugène Jarossay Eugène, Histoire de l'abbaye de Micy-Saint-Mesmin-lez-Orléans (502–1790): son influence religieuse et sociale d'après les archives et les documents originaux. online , Orléans, M. Marron, 1902,
  • Marie-Marguerite Lemarignier, Études sur les anciennes chartes de l'abbaye Saint-Mesmin de Micy et essai de restitution des cartulaires, Paris, thesis at the École des Chartes
  • Avertissement servant à l'examen des titres et chartulaires de l'abbaye de S. Mesmin, et pour en justifier les faussetés. Pour le sieur Chassinat, au sujet des usurpations de l'abbé de Vassan sur la Loire. online , 1661

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6902024w
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saint-pryve.com
  3. ^ Charles-René d'Hozier, Armorial général de France: dressé en vertu de l'édit de 1696, volume 22
  4. ↑ The base of the cross bears the inscription "Je m'élève sur les ruines du monastère de Micy fondé sous Clovis Ier, chrétien, roi des francs, l'an du seigneur 1858, Pie IX étant pontife suprême, Napoléon III empereur. Félix Dupanloup, évêque d'Orléans, dédiait ce monument à la mémoire vénérée des Saints Euspice et Mesmin, fundateurs de l'abbaye de Micy ”, http://www.saint-pryve.com
  5. ↑ http://www.carmel.asso.fr
  6. ↑ online

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 55 ″  N , 1 ° 52 ′ 6 ″  E