Benedictine Abbey of Maredret

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Monastery gate and church

The Benedictine Abbey Maredret is since 1893 the monastery of the Benedictine nuns in Anhée , a municipality in the province of Namur in Belgium .

history

The Belgian industrialist and publisher Henri Desclée (1830–1917), co-founder of the Catholic publishing house Desclée de Brouwer, donated land on which the Benedictine of the Abbey of Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes , Cécile de Hemptinne (1870–1948, maiden name Agnès) in 1893 together with six companions and supported by her brother, Hildebrand de Hemptinne (birth name Felix), abbot of the neighboring Abbey of Maredsous since 1890 , near the village of Maredret (today: district of Anhée) the monastery of Saints Jean et Scholastique de Maredret (Monastery of Saint John and of the Holy Scholastica of Nursia ). In 1900 the priory was elevated to an abbey and the prioress Cécile was consecrated abbess. The abbey belonged to the Beuron Congregation until 1927 , since then it has been a member of the Congregation of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary .

As the daughter of an industrialist, Oberin Cécile had the necessary means to build neo-Gothic monastery buildings in the style of the 14th century (architect: Auguste Van Assche, 1826–1907, final completion 1936). The monastery housed up to 100 nuns (today: 10). One of the special features of the monastery has been the neo-Gothic book illumination , introduced by Agnès Desclée (1871–1931, daughter of Henri Desclée) and perfected from 1898 by Marie-Madeleine Kerger (1876–1959). From 1900 to 1914 Maria Anna Benedicta von Spiegel was a nun in Maredret.

On June 23, 1916, Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the abbey.

founding

1959: Benedictine priory Sovu near Butare ( Rwanda )

literature

  • Michel Boisdequin: L'imagerie à l'abbaye de Maredret. Une production monastique au XXe siècle . In: Imagiers de paradis. Images de piété popular du XVe au XXe siècle. Musée en Piconrue, Bastogne, 1990 . Brussels 1990, pp. 115-136.
  • Dominique Vanwijnsberghe: Un art très monastique. L'atelier des bénédictines de Maredret de 1893 à 1940 . In: Thomas Coomans and Jan de Maeyer (eds.): Renaissance de l'enluminure médiévale. Manuscrits et enluminures belges du XIXe siècle et leur contexte européen . Leuven University Press, Leuven 2007, pp. 295-309.

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 51.3 "  N , 4 ° 45 ′ 24.5"  E