Sainte-Scholastique Abbey (Juvigny)

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The Benedictine Sisters - Abbey of Sainte-Scholastique in Juvigny-sur-Loison (hence also called Juvigny-les-Dames ) stood in a loop of the Loison river on the edge of the Woëvre forest and the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire between the towns of Montmédy and Stenay and Damvillers .

history

According to tradition, the abbey was founded in 874 by Richildis , the second wife of Charles the Bald . The relics of St. Scholastica of Nursia , who was venerated as the sister of Benedict of Nursia , were brought here on June 6th of this year . However, they were then forgotten and only "found again" by the abbess at the end of the 11th century "through divine revelation".

The abbey was under the protection of the Holy See from 1096 , belonged to the Archdiocese of Trier in spiritual matters , but was subordinate to the Bishop of Verdun , later to the Duke of Bar and the Duke of Lorraine , and finally to the French King, in secular matters also known as Abbaye royale .

The abbey suffered badly from the Huguenot Wars , during which the monastery church was desecrated and the buildings were almost destroyed. In 1624, the monastery was ordered to be closed if it was not rebuilt. The work then started lasted until 1746.

In 1790, during the Revolution , the abbey was dissolved, in 1792 the buildings were sold as national property and largely demolished at the beginning of the 19th century. Only the bakery from 1746 remained and was rededicated in 1858 as a boarding school for priests. In 1903 the building burned down, with which the last remnants of the abbey disappeared.

Count Vassinhac-Imécourt, owner of the castle of Louppy-sur-Loison and nephew of the last abbess of Juvigny, had part of the ruins restored. And founded a religious boarding school for boys there. At the end of the 19th century the school had 223 students. Today the building is owned by an association for the promotion of people with disabilities .

The Scholastica relics are now in the parish church of Juvigny.

Abbesses

The abbey annals list forty abbesses, the first of whom is said to have been Queen Richilde herself; alternatively, a Bertrande is named, which came from the Sainte-Aure monastery in Paris. The names of the abbesses of the first two centuries have been lost.

  1. Walburge (Galburge) (1086–1106)
  2. Hadwide I. (1124-1139)
  3. Judith (1150)
  4. Gerberge (1174)
  5. Ide de Chiny (1187) ( Chiny House )
  6. Hadwide II. De Chiny (1206)
  7. Marguerite I d'Apremont (1259-1271)
  8. Ide of Wales (1279-1286)
  9. Agnès de Montquintin (1299-1327)
  10. Helwide or Hadwide de Prény (1342–1347)
  11. Marguerite II. De Bazeilles (1350-1370)
  12. Égidia or Gillette de Chappes (1390-1396)
  13. Joan I de Pins (1396)
  14. Jeanne II. De Nanteuil (1398)
  15. Gillette II. De Chappes or Chappy (1402)
  16. Marguerite III. de Laval (1406-1430)
  17. Hawis de Sampigny (1446–1447)
  18. Marie de Ville (1482)
  19. Catherine I. d'Espinal (1491-1495)
  20. Alix de Dommartin (1505–1520), also Abbess of Sainte-Glossinde in Metz
  21. Renée de Blandin or Blandry (1520)
  22. Anne d'Apremont (1522-1531)
  23. Catherine II de Failly (1531-1567)
  24. Françoise de Failly (1567)
  25. Anne de Failly (1588)
  26. Nicole de Lenoncourt (1588–1594)
  27. Catherine III de Lenoncourt (1594–1608)
  28. Scholastique-Gabrielle de Livron-Bourbonne (1608–1662)
  29. Catherine-Gabrielle-Marie de Livron (1662–1705)
  30. Louise-Gabrielle de Livron (1705-1711)
  31. Alexis-Madeleine de Vassinhac-Imécourt (1711–1777)
  32. Marie-Louise-Victoire de Vassinhac-Imécourt (1777–1793), † August 19, 1807 at Imécourt Castle at the age of 86

literature

  • Augustin Calmet , Notice de la Lorraine: qui comprend les duchés de Bar et de Luxembourg, l'électorat de Trèves, les trois évéchés (Metz, Toul et Verdun), 2nd edition, volume 1, 1840, p. 465
  • Jacques Hourlier, Saint Scholastique et Juvigny-sur-Loison, 1974, 64 pages
  • Offices propres de quelques festes de saincts particuliers celebrez au monastère de sainte Scholastique à Juvigny, ordre de sainct Benoist - Toul, 1648 (text of the translation of the Scholastica relics according to Juvigny)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ «Ces reliques ayant été cachées et oubliées pendant assez long-temps, Dieu fit connaître par révélation à l'abesse Gualburge, qu'elles étaient renfermées dans un coffre enveloppé de cercles de fer; Gualburge en donna acis à Thierry, surnommé le Grand, évèque de Verdun, qui en fit l'ouverture, et la reconnaissance, en présence d'un infinité de personnes, vers l'an 1095 », Calmet, p. 465; Bishop Thierry (Dietrich) died on April 28, 1089
  2. ↑ Juvigny-sur-Loison ou l'esprit bénédictin. Office de tourisme transfrontalier du Pays de Montmédy, accessed on November 17, 2012 (French).
  3. ^ Nos Maisons dans le Nord Est. (No longer available online.) Perce-Neige, archived from the original on June 10, 2013 ; Retrieved November 17, 2012 (French).
  4. ↑ Entry No. 55262 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '57 "  N , 5 ° 20' 23.2"  E