Benedictine Abbey of Pesquié
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The Benedictine Abbey Pesquié since 1991 a convent of Benedictine nuns in Serres-sur-Arget in the department of Ariege and in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers in France.
history
The Benedictine double monastery in Dourgne , consisting of Saint Benedict En-Calcat and Saint Scholastica , founded a double monastery in Madiran in 1932/1934 , the female part of which, the Abbaye de l'Immaculée Conception , was elevated to an abbey in 1947. Since the monastery there was not sustainable in the long run, the monks moved to Tournay in 1952/1954 , where they are today, and the nuns from 1950–1955 (keeping their name) to the neighboring town of Ozon . There, however, from 1989 onwards they were so disturbed by the new A64 motorway that from 1991 they settled in the new village of Pesquié in Serres-sur-Arget near Foix , where the last of the 65 sisters arrived in 1999. The Abbaye Notre-Dame du Pesquié (Our Lady of Le Pesquié) had to be built there first. The foundation stone for the church was laid in 2010 and it was consecrated in 2017. Today the convent has around 50 sisters.
Superiors of Madiran, Ozon and Pesquié
- 1934–1971: Immaculata de Franclieu (first prioress, from 1947 abbess, † 1977)
- 1971–2004: Marie-Bernard Eudier
- 2004–: Immaculata Astre
Web links
- Website of the Pesquié Monastery with a history
- Newspaper article on the inauguration of the abbey church, French
- Localization
- Information on the Benedictine Abbey of Pesquié in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Coordinates: 42 ° 58 ′ 32.9 ″ N , 1 ° 32 ′ 12.1 ″ E