Sainte-Scholastique Abbey (Dourgne)
The Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Scholastique is since 1890 a convent of Benedictine nuns in Dourgne ( Tarn ) in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi in France .
history
origin
The spiritual partnership between Marie Cronier and Romain Banquet , monk of the Pierre-Qui-Vire monastery founded by Jean-Baptiste Muard , led to the establishment of a Benedictine double monastery in Dourgne, southeast of Toulouse , in 1890 . The monks built the monastery of Saint-Benoît (Saint Benedict) in the district of En-Calcat, the nuns 1 km away the monastery of Sainte-Scholastique (after the holy Scholastica of Nursia ). Both monasteries were elevated to abbey in 1896. The church was consecrated in 1927. The abbey currently has around 50 sisters.
Foundations
- 1921: Maria Mediatrix and Sankt Wivina in Affligem- Hekelgem (Belgium)
- 1934: Santa Scolastica in Civitella San Paolo (Italy)
- 1934: Double monastery Madiran , moved to Ozon in 1955 due to drought , there again double monastery with the neighboring Benedictine Abbey of Tournay , but again expelled from 1988 through the construction of the A64 motorway , since 1991 Abbey of Notre-Dame du Pesquié in Serres-sur-Arget .
Abbesses
- 1896–1937: Marie Cronier
- 1937–1965: Marie-Scholastique Lagrave
- 1965–1985: Marie Sabeline Castany
- 1985–1989: Agnès Feur
- 1989–1998: Françoise-Romaine Soudan
- 1998–: Léonce Mauriès
literature
- Romain Banquet and Marie Cronier: «Selon ta parole». Le Mémorial des fondateurs. Mémorial des origines de l'Œuvre de Dourgne. Textes autobiographiques, 1840–1896 , ed. by Bernard Billet. SODEC, Dourgne 1988, also 2004.
- Michel Gô: Si Dourgne m'était conté. Sa préhistoire, son histoire, ses sites, ses monastères, ses hommes . Saint-Ferréol 2014.
- Madame Marie Cronier 1857-1937. Fondatrice et première abbesse de l'abbaye Sainte-Scholastique de Dourgne . Dourgne 1939.
Web links
- Website of the Benedictine Sisters of En-Calcat
- Website of the Pesquié Monastery with a history
- Chapter on the monastery from the book by M. Gô, French, illustrated
- Information on the Abbey of Sainte-Scholastique in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Coordinates: 43 ° 29 ′ 25.3 " N , 2 ° 8 ′ 50" E