Benedictine Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary

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The Benedictine Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary (French: Bénédictines de Notre-Dame du Calvaire ) have been a congregation of French Benedictine Sisters since 1617 . It is not to be confused with the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Calvary of Gramat founded by Pierre Bonhomme in Gramat in 1833 (Latin: Congregatio Sororum Dominae Nostrae a Calvario ) and also not with the Dames du Calvaire founded by Jeanne Garnier in Lyon in 1842 .

history

When Antoinette von Orléans-Longueville (1572–1618), after nine years of marriage to Charles de Gondi (1569–1596), brother of Henri de Gondi , widowed, she entered the reform monastery of Feuillanten , Sainte Scolastique , in Toulouse . Since she was of royal blood and the chosen monastery was considered inadequate, she had to leave the Cistercian monastery under pressure from the family and the Pope and join the Abbey of Fontevrault as coadjutor , where her reform zeal could not prevail. So she initially avoided the Lencloître priory (west of Châtellerault ), which belonged to the abbey , finally left the Order of Fontevrault with 24 nuns and founded the convent of Notreult in Poitiers in 1617 (shortly before her death) with the support of the Capuchin Father Joseph du Tremblay . Dame du Calvaire and the congregation of the same name. The order covered mainly north-west France with more than a dozen foundations, three of which still exist in France and one in Israel. Since 1987 the Congregation of the Men’s Congregation of Subiaco and Montecassino has been affiliated.

Formations (alphabetical)

  • Angers (1619–1792, since 1821)
  • Bouzy-la-Forêt (since 1999)
  • Quinone (1626–1792)
  • Jerusalem (since 1897)
  • Kerbénéat (1977-2002)
  • Lacapelle-Marival (1620-1970)
  • Landerneau (1634–1792, 1813–1977) 1905–1919 part of the convent in Belgium, 1977–2002 Kerbénéat, then split between Jerusalem and Prailles
  • Loudun (1624–1792) Jansenist until 1785
  • Machecoul (1674–1792, 1828–1958)
  • Mayenne (1624–1792)
  • Morlaix (1625-1792)
  • Nantes (1623–1792)
  • Orléans (1638–1792, Jansenist until 1780, 1806–1956), then Saint-Jean-de-Bray , from 1999 Bouzy-la Forêt
  • Paris I. La Compassion. Petit Luxembourg. Faubourg Saint-Germain (1620–1792, 1817–)
  • Paris II. La Crucifixion. Le Marais (1634–1790) still today: Metro station “Filles du Calvaire”
  • Poitiers (1617–1792, 1824–1962), then Saint-Julien-l'Ars , from 1991 Prailles (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation)
  • Poitiers. La Trinité (1634–1792)
  • Prailles (since 1991)
  • Quimper (1634-1792)
  • Redon (1641–1792)
  • Rennes. Cucé (1631–1792)
  • Rennes. Saint-Cyr (1659-1792)
  • Saint-Brieux (1625–1792)
  • Saint-Jean-de-Bray (1956-1999)
  • Saint-Julien-l'Ars (1962-1991)
  • Saint-Malo (1639-1792)
  • Tours (1636–1792, Jansenist to the last)
  • Vendôme (1625–1792, Jansenist until 1783, 1815–1956, then Saint-Jean-de-Bray, from 1999 Bouzy-la Forêt)

Jansenism in the Congregation

In 1722 the Jansenist general superior Françoise de Coëtquen (1676-1745) was elected. In 1739 she was exiled by the king to Jarcy Abbey (now Varennes-Jarcy ) (where she died). After that, seven more monasteries maintained their Jansenism: Paris I, Paris II, Orléans, Tours, Loudun, Vendôme and Rennes Saint-Cyr. After Renée Jeanne de St Joseph had been elected in 1741, four monasteries remained Jansenist: Loudun, Vendôme, Tours and Orléans. In 1780, Superior General Françoise Agathe de St Placide de Coudray succeeded in recovering Orléans, in 1783 of Vendôme and in 1785 of Loudun. Tours remained Jansenist until its dissolution in 1792.

Martyr in the Congregation

Rosalie du Verdier de la Sorinière, religious name Céleste (born August 12, 1745 in Chemillé  ; † January 27, 1794 in Angers) entered the Angers monastery in 1763, was in the Orléans monastery from 1780 and went to her sister-in-law after its dissolution in 1792 Maria de la Dive and her two daughters. All were arrested and guillotined at Le Lorgeron in January 1794 . You are among the Angers martyrs who were beatified in 1984.

literature

  • Une Martyre de la Révolution. Mère Rosalie-Céleste du Verdier de la Sorinière , par une moniale bénédictine. Angers 1952.

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