Eyres-Moncube Benedictine Abbey

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The Benedictine abbey Eyres-Moncube (also: Notre-Dame de Saint-Eustase ) is a monastery of the Benedictine nuns in Eyres-Moncube , Département Landes ( diocese Aire and Dax ) in France.

history

From Vergaville to Flavigny-sur-Moselle

After the French Revolution of the nunnery of Saint- Eustase de Vergaville (east of Château-Salins ), founded in 966, the last abbess, Marie Jeanne Guérin de la Marche (1756–1842), who had fled to Vienna , succeeded in reuniting the convent in 1802, first in the Ménil priory in Lunéville , from 1809 in Saint-Dié and finally in 1824 in the Benedictine priory Flavigny-sur-Moselle (south of Nancy), from where the Sacré-Coeur Abbey in Oriocourt (northwest of Château-Salins) founded in 1860 has been.

From Flavigny to Roville-aux-Chênes

When the Flavigny monastery was dissolved by the Third Republic in 1904 , the nuns went into exile in Cassine ( Diocese of Acqui ) in Piedmont , but returned to France after the First World War and settled in Roville-aux-Chênes (northeast of Epinal ) in 1921 .

From the Vosges to the Landes

Through the mediation of the Lazarists of Dax , Bishop Clément Mathieu (1930–1963) accepted the nuns in his diocese, where they resided from 1935 in the castle of Saint-Pandelon (south of Dax) and from 1936 in the castle of Poyanne . From 1946 onwards they received the Olivetans from Maylis (15 km away) as neighbors, in 1948 they themselves joined the Olivetan congregation and in 1951 they were clad in white.

In Eyres-Moncube since 1985

In 1985 they moved (under Bishop Robert Pierre Sarrabère ) to Laféourère in Eyres-Moncube (near Saint-Sever ), where the architect Jacques de Saint-Rapt (who built the Benedictine Abbey of Tournay ) built a church for them in 1988, which was consecrated in 1989 . In it stands the Eustasius statue from the 14th century, which the sisters always had with them on their long journey from Vergaville to Eyres-Moncube. It is about 20 kilometers to the Benedictine Abbey of Maylis . There are currently 13 nuns living in the monastery.

literature

  • Alphonse-Joseph Dedenon: Histoire du prieuré bénédictin de Flavigny-sur-Moselle . Vagner, Nancy 1936. XV, 219 pp.
  • Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 60.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′ 44.9 "  N , 0 ° 32 ′ 24.5"  W.