Sainte-Scholastique Abbey (Dourgne)

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Sainte-Scolastique Abbey

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

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.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 29 ′ 25.3 "  N , 2 ° 8 ′ 50"  E