Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes

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The Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes has been a French monastery of the Benedictine women in Solesmes in the Sarthe department in France since 1866 .

history

Foundation in Solesmes and exile in England

Cécile Bruyère founded the Sainte-Cécile nunnery in 1866 with the support of her mentor Prosper Guéranger a short distance from the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Pierre . When moving into the new building in 1867, the monastery was elevated to a priory and in 1890 to an abbey (although the Pope had already allowed Prioress Cécile to call herself "Abbess" in 1870). In 1901 the nuns moved to the Isle of Wight before the anti-monastery Third Republic (the buildings are now St Cecilia's Abbey , Ryde ), but were able to return in 1919.

Influence on other start-ups and own subsidiary start-ups

The Sainte-Cécile monastery was groundbreaking for other Benedictine nunneries, namely the Saint-Nicolas abbey in Verneuil-sur-Avre , the St. Gabriel monastery in Prague , the Maredret abbey in Belgium, the Sainte-Scholastique (Dourgne) abbey , as well the St. Hildegard Abbey in Eibingen . In 1889 the daughter monastery Notre-Dame de Wisques west of Saint-Omer was founded, which was elevated to an abbey in 1894. In 1898 the subsidiary Saint-Michel de Kergonan was founded near Carnac (as in Solesmes and Wisques in the immediate vicinity of the monastery built in 1897). In 1967 the Saint-Jean-Baptiste monastery was founded in Keur-Guilaye, Thiès department in Senegal (previously in 1961 by Saint-Pierre monastery Keur Moussa ), which was elevated to an independent priory in 1993. In 1975 the monastery of Sainte-Marie-des-Anges de Bout-Bois was founded in Le Carbet on Martinique (1993 partially independent priory). (The Benedictine monastery Notre-Dame-du-Monde-des-Oliviers de Terreville in Schœlcher, founded in Canada, had existed since 1948. )

Abbess list

  • 1870–1909: Cécile Bruyère
  • 1909–1928: Claire de Livron de Bourbonne
  • 1928–1948: Madeleine Limozin (* 1873 in Marseille)
  • 1948–1981: Gaudentie Limozin († 1991)
  • 1981–2011: Marie-Bernadette de Maigret
  • since 2011: Claire de Sazilly

literature

  • Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 415.
  • Guy-Marie Oury (1929-2000): Lumière et force. Mère Cécile Bruyère, première abbesse de Sainte-Cécile 1845–1909 . Editions de Solesmes 1997.

Web links

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 53.8 "  N , 0 ° 18 ′ 21.2"  W.