Saint Sixtus Abbey
Saint Sixtus Abbey | |
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Sint-Sixtusabdij, Westvleteren |
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location |
Belgium Province of West Flanders |
Lies in the diocese | Bruges |
Coordinates: | 50 ° 53 '45.4 " N , 2 ° 43' 16.5" E |
founding year | 1831 (priory) 1871 (abbey) |
Mother monastery | Mont des Cats monastery |
Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
Congregation | (Trappists) |
Daughter monasteries |
1850: Scourmont Abbey |
The Abbey of Saint Sixtus (Latin: Abbatia BM de Sancto Sixto ; Dutch: Sint-Sixtusabdij ; French: Abbaye Saint Sixte ) is a Trappist monastery in Vleteren , West Flanders Province , Belgium .
history
After Benedictine nuns were already there from 1260 to 1355 and nuns of the Order of the Redeemer from 1615 to 1784 , Trappists from the nearby French monastery of Mont des Cats under Prior François-Marie Van Langendonck founded the Belgian priory of Saint Sixtus on the other side of the border in 1871 an abbey ( Sint-Sixtusabdij ) was raised. Since 1839 (the brewery was expanded from 1875 to 1878), a Trappist beer produced by the monks under the name Westvleteren has been associated with the abbey (2005 award as “Best Beer in the World”).
Foundations
The following foundations originated from the Abbey of Saint Sixtus:
- Scourmont Abbey (1850)
- Petit Clairvaux Monastery , Tracadie, Nova Scotia (1858)
Priors and abbots
Priors
- Franciscus-Maria Van Langendonck (1831–1836)
- Dositheus Kempeneers (1836–1847)
- Franciscus Decroix (1847–1850)
- Jacobus Deportemont (1850-1856)
- Dositheus Kempeneers (1856–1871)
Abbots
- Benedictus Wuyts (1871–1872, abbot of Westmalle Abbey until 1896)
- Albericus Verhelle (1872-1910)
- Bonaventura De Groote (1910–1941)
- Gerardus Deleye (1941–1968)
- Herman-Joseph Seynaeve (1968–1978)
- Remi Heyse (1978–1996)
- Manu Van Hecke (1996-)
literature
- Johannes Lootens: De Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren. Divorce. Lions 2012.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie. Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, pp. 368–369.
Web links
- http://sintsixtus.be/ (website of the abbey, Dutch)
- http://www.cistopedia.org/index.php?id=10761 (entry of the Cistercian order )