Wisques Benedictine Abbey
The Benedictine Abbey Wisques is since 1889 French monastery of the Benedictine in Wisques ( Pas-de-Calais ).
history
When the daughter monastery of Notre-Dame de Wisques was founded by the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes (French name: Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes ) in Wisques (west of Saint-Omer ) in 1889 , some of the monks of the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes (French name: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes ) as spiritual supervisor. The group founded the Saint-Paul de Wisques monastery a short distance from the nunnery in the Little Castle , which in 1894 moved to the Great Castle (previously inhabited by the nuns) and became a priory .
In 1901, the monks avoided the hostile Third Republic to Honnay ( Beauraing ) in the Belgian province of Namur , from there to Montignies-Saint-Christophe ( Erquelinnes ) in the Belgian province of Hainaut , but finally to Oosterhout (near Breda ) in the Netherlands , where the nuns of Notre-Dame de Wisques were already staying. There they built the Oosterhout monastery from 1907 to 1910, which was elevated to an abbey in 1910 (French: Abbaye Saint-Paul d'Oosterhout ; Dutch: Sint-Paulusabdij ) and existed there until 2006.
In 1919 some of the monks from Oosterhout returned to the Wisques monastery, which was then for a time the priory of Oosterhout, but was in turn elevated to an abbey in 1928 . In 2013 the outdated convent was reinforced by 13 monks from Fontgombault Abbey . From 1966 the monk Henri-Marie Guilluy became the founder of a new congregation that opened up to the disabled.
Priors
- 1894-1903: Louis Baron
- 1903–1907: René de Sainte-Beuve
- 1907-1910: Jean de Puniet de Parry
Abbots
- 1910–1928: Jean de Puniet de Parry (then Abbot of Oosterhout, † 1941)
- 1928–1960: Augustin Savaton (1878–1965)
- 1960–1985: Jean Gaillard
- 1985–2005: Gérard Lafond (* 1926; pupil of Stéphane Vautherin 1889–1964; 1945 founder of the Ordre des chevaliers de Notre-Dame ; 1948 entry into the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille ; 1985–1987 administrator in Wisques; † 2010)
- 2005–2009: Jacques Lubrez
- 2009–2016: (administrators)
- since 2016: Philippe de Montauzan
literature
- Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 358.
Web links
- Information on the Benedictine Abbey of Wisques in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Benedictine Wisques Abbey in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Website of the abbey, French
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 2 ° 11 ′ 12.5 ″ E