Kergonan Benedictine Abbey
The Benedictine Abbey of Kergonan has been a French monastery of the Benedictine women in Plouharnel ( Diocese of Vannes ) in Brittany since 1898 .
history
The Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes under Abbess Cécile Bruyère founded the daughter monastery Abbaye Saint-Michel de Kergonan in the Morbihan department near Carnac in 1898 , which was elevated to an abbey in 1905 (in exile) . In 1901, the nuns avoided the hostile Third Republic on the Isle of Wight . In 1919 they were able to return. From 1943 to 1945 their monastery was confiscated by the German occupiers and they had to stay in the Coëtcandec Castle in Locmaria-Grand-Champ . The monastery church, inaugurated in 1972, burned down in 2007 and had to be rebuilt (re-inauguration 2012).
Abbesses
- 1905–1938: Lucie Schmitt (* 1849 in Niort )
- 1938–1946: Raphaël Estrabou († 1985)
- 1947–1982: Jeanne Paris (* 1902 in Arras ; † 1986)
- 1983–2007: Marie-Françoise Euverte (* 1930 in Paris)
- since 2007: Laurence Dupré la Tour (* 1948 in Lannemezan )
literature
- Une abbaye de Bénédictines en terre bretonne. Saint-Michel de Kergonan . Ed. du Signe, Eckbolsheim 1998.
Web links
- Information on the Benedictine Abbey of Kergonan in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about the Benedictine Abbey of Kergonan in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Website of the monastery, French
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '49 " N , 3 ° 5' 55.7" W.