Maylis Benedictine Abbey

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The Benedictine Abbey Maylis (also: Notre-Dame de Maylis ) is a monastery of the Olivetan in Maylis , Landes department ( Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire and Dax ) in France. The medieval chapel belonging to the monastery has been included in the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1976 .

history

The diocesan missionary priests Joseph Gorce and Joseph Lagrace, who lived at the Marian place of grace and pilgrimage Maylis (25 km southwest of Mont-de-Marsan ), entered the Olivetan monastery founded by Emmanuel André in Mesnil-Saint-Loup (west of Troyes ) in 1936 and took them Religious names Augustin and Fulgence . In 1938 they founded a Benedictine community ( Tourtarel Priory ) at Tourtarel in Colayrac-Saint-Cirq , near Agen . It was moved to Maylis in 1946 and made an abbey there in 1948 (first abbot: Augustin Gorce). In 1951, the large church (from the 19th century), visible from afar, was inaugurated on a hill. There is also a chapel from the 13th century. The monastery currently houses around 20 monks.

literature

  • Césaire Daugé (1858–1945): Notre Dame de Maylis. Son histoire et pèlerinage . Monastère de Maylis, Mugron 1936.
  • Antoine Labarrère: Histoire de N.-D. de Maylis . Veuve Justin Dupouy et Compagnie, Bordeaux 1864.
  • Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 63.
  • Notre-Dame de Maylis, son sanctuaire, son abbaye . Lescuyer et Fils, Lyon 1962.
  • "Regardez le rocher d'où l'on vous a taillés". Documents primitifs de la Congrégation bénédictine de Sainte-Marie du Mont-Olivet . Abbaye Notre-Dame de Maylis, 1996

Web links

Commons : Benedictine Abbey Maylis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chapel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′ 43.4 "  N , 0 ° 40 ′ 44.8"  W.