Benedictine Abbey En-Calcat

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Saint-Benoît Abbey

The Benedictine Abbey En Calcat since 1890 a convent of Benedictine 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 built the monastery of Sainte-Scholastique 1 km away . Both monasteries were elevated to abbey in 1896.

Eviction and return

In 1903 the male monastery was driven out by the Third Republic and went into exile in Spain (until 1908 to Ribes de Freser , then to Besalú ). During the First World War , 33 monks were called up for military service, 10 of them fell before the enemy. Then the republic tacitly renounced its church persecution and the convent was able to return to En-Calcat from January 1918 (the last monks left Spain in 1925).

Subsidiaries and further development

The monastery church was built from 1931 to 1935. At the same time a daughter monastery was founded in Madiran (later moved to Tournay ). In 1939/1940 45 monks were called up for military service (one of whom fell). In 1945 the monastery founded a publishing house and published its own book of hours in 1954 . In 1952 there were 120 monks and daughter monasteries were founded in Africa. The consequences of the 2nd Vatican Council shook the monastery considerably. Today around 50 priests live there. The monastery counts 10,000 overnight stays per year, mostly pilgrims on the Way of St. James .

Abbots

  • 1896–1923: Romain Banquet
  • 1923–1943: Marie Cambarou († 1944)
  • 1943–1953: Marie de Floris (1910–1994)
  • 1953–1966: Germain Barbier († 1971)
  • 1965–1978: Dominique Hermant († 2010)
  • 1979-1996: Thierry Portevin
  • 1996–2009: André-Jean Demaugé
  • 2009–: David Tardif d'Hamonville

Foundations

literature

  • Livre d'heures, français, composé par les moines de l'abbaye d'En-Calcat . Editions d'En-Calcat, Dourgne 1954.
  • 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.
  • «Centenaire de la Fondation de Saint-Benoît d'En Calcat et de Sainte-Scholastique de Dourgne 1890–1990. Colloque historique, 7-8 September 1990 ». In: Revue du Tarn 142, 1991.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 29 '50.7 "  N , 2 ° 9' 4.1"  E