Saint-Nicolas-du-Port Benedictine Convent

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The Benedictine monastery of Saint-Nicolas-du-Port was a priory of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in the Meurthe-et-Moselle ( Diocese of Toul ) in France from 1812 to 1904 .

history

Mechtilde de Bar , prioress of the first monastery of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Paris since 1654 , founded daughter monasteries in Toul , Rambervillers and Nancy in 1664, 1666 and 1669 . After the closure of these monasteries by the French Revolution in 1792, some of the nuns were able to survive underground. In 1812 they got together and settled in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (near Nancy ) the empty convent of the Augustinian women choirs. Contemporary sources know the monastery as Dames religieuses Bénédictines de l'adoration perpétuelle du Saint-Sacrement or Dames de la Charité dites de Saint-Benoît . It lasted until 1904. A letter has been received from the last prioress, who lived in an apartment in Nancy in 1921. Today there are no remains of the monastery.

Founding of subsidiaries

The monastery developed a considerable dynamic in the middle of the 19th century. In 1856 the Bayeux Benedictine convent was saved from there and still exists today, as was the Rosheim Benedictine convent founded by Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in 1862 . In 1854, at the instigation of Trier Bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi of Saint-Nicolas-du-Port, the first German foundation of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament started, the Trier-Gartenfeld Monastery , independent since 1869, since 1888 under the name "Bethanien", since 1922 in Trier-Kürenz . Joseph Alois Faller was inspired by the Saint-Nicolas-du-Port monastery to found the Congregation of the Benedictines of Adoration .

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.
  • Collection complète des lois, décrets d'intérêt général, traités internationaux, arrêtés, circulaires, instructions . Recueil Sirey. Vol. 27, 1830, p. 9.
  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995, column 2827 (St-Nicolas-du-Port).
  • La Très révérende Mère Marie de Saint-François-de-Sales (Marie-Félicité Mathieu), prieure des Bénédictines du Très Saint-Sacrement de Saint-Nicolas-du-Port, 1837–1907 . Nancy 1909 (sister of François-Désiré Mathieu ).

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