Mas-Grenier Benedictine Convent

The Benedictine convent Mas-Grenier was a priory of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament from 1836 to 2013, first in Toulouse , from 1904 in Portbou and from 1921 in Mas-Grenier , Canton Verdun-sur-Garonne , in the Département Tarn-et-Garonne ( Diocese of Montauban ) in France.

history

Toulouse and Portbou

A nun from the Feuillantinnen convent of Sainte-Scholastique , which was closed in 1792, founded a privately donated teaching convent in Toulouse in 1817 on the site of today's Lycée Saint Sernin high school . In 1836 the convent joined the Benedictine Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament founded by Mechtilde de Bar . Under the pressure of the Third Republic , which was hostile to the monastery , the sisters went into exile in 1904 in Portbou on the Spanish-French border.

Mas-Grenier and Montolieu

When the nuns were able to return in 1921, they chose a new location 20 km southwest of Montauban in Mas-Grenier ( Chemin de Saint-Aignan ), where the remains of the former Benedictine monastery of Saint-Pierre still stood. There they took in the remaining nuns of the closed Corsican monastery Erbalunga in Brando in 1963 . In 2013, Mas-Grenier was given up due to problems with young talent. The remaining convent went to an old people's home of the Vincentine Sisters in Montolieu (northwest of Carcassonne).

literature

Gaston Charvin (1887–1973): L'Institut des Bénédictines de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du Saint-Sacrement . In: Priez sans cesse. 300 ans de prière. Laudetur Sacrosanctum Sacramentum . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1953, pp. 54-174.
Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995, column 3333 (Verdun-sur-Garonne).
A. Jouglar: Monograph de l'abbaye du Mas-Grenier ou de Saint Pierre de la Cour, diocèse de Montauban, antérieurement de Toulouse . Delboy, Toulouse 1864.

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