Rambervillers Benedictine convent

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The Rambervillers Benedictine monastery was a priory of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Rambervillers in the Vosges département ( Diocese of Toul ) in France from 1666 to 1792 .

history

Around 1600, a Benedictine convent was founded in Rambervillers (northeast of Épinal ) , which opened a school. Mechtilde de Bar , who was born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and became a nun in Bruyères , entered the convent and made profession in 1640 . Because of the war unrest in the area, the convent had to flee temporarily. Mechtilde ended up in Paris, where in 1653 she founded the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament. From the first monastery of the congregation, which was located in the Rue Cassette from 1659 , further foundations were made or other existing monasteries joined the congregation. This is also the case with the Notre-Dame de la Conception (Mary Conception) monastery in Rambervillers in 1666 . After the monastery was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1792 , the Ecole du Center , built in 1629, was acquired by the municipality and now houses the media library.

Saint-Nicolas-de-Port

In 1812 the surviving nuns teamed up with those of the monasteries of Toul and Nancy and began a new monastic life in the vacant monastery of the Augustinian choir women in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port .

literature

  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 2399.
  • 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.

Local history

  • André Boucher: Sous les cendres du passé de Rambervillers . Mirecourt 1959.
  • Alban Fournier: Rambervillers. Notice historique . Res Universis, Paris 1993 (first 1875 and 1897)
  • Robert Poupart: À travers l'histoire de Rambervillers . Rambervillers 1981.
  • Regard sur le passé de Rambervillers et ses environs . Rambervillers 1996.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '44.7 "  N , 6 ° 38' 1.9"  E