Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Marseille)

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The Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine was a monastery of the Benedictines of the Congregation of Solesmes in Marseille in France from 1865 to 1922 .

history

founding

Because there after the fall of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Victor was in the 18th century in Marseille no Benedictine monastery, founded Abbot Prosper Guéranger of Solesmes in 1865 by the canon Alphonse Coulin (1800-1887) in the d'Aubagne Rue 92 , the Priory Sainte- Marie-Madeleine , which became an abbey in 1876. The neo-Gothic church built by Coulin is still standing today.

Italy. Hautecombe. Ganagobia

In 1880 the monks were expelled from the anti-congregational Third Republic and retired to a private house on the outskirts (in Saint-Barnabé). In 1901 they went into exile in Italy, first to San Remo , then to Acquafredda near Brescia , and finally from 1910 to 1922 to Chiari . From 1922 to 1992 they settled in the Hautecombe Monastery , from where they moved to the Ganagobie Abbey , which they had owned since 1891 and where they had carried out extensive restoration and expansion work.

Priors and abbots

  • 1865–1871: Onésime Menault (* 1825; † in the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos )
  • 1871–1876: Louis Le Menant des Chesnaies
  • 1876–1920: Jacques-Christophe Gauthey (1833–1920)

literature

  • L'abbaye Sainte-Madeleine de Marseille à Ganagobie, 1865-2015 . Association des amis du Prieuré de Ganagobie, Ganagobie 2015.
  • Bernard Laure: Une belle figure de moine Bénédictin, Dom Christophe Gauthey premier abbé de Sainte Marie-Magdeleine de Marseille (1833–1920) . Editions de la revue «les Alpes», Grenoble 1944.
  • Guy-Marie Oury: Dom Prosper Guéranger . Be§Be-Verlag, Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald 2013, pp. 516–532.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 17 ′ 36.5 "  N , 5 ° 22 ′ 53.1"  E