Carmel de Lyon

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Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 34.4 "  N , 4 ° 49 ′ 3.2"  E

Carmel de Fourvière
medal Carmelites
French Carmel since 1616
Mother house Couvent des Carmélites du Faubourg Saint-Jacques
founding year 1616
diocese Archdiocese of Lyon
founder Charles de Neufville and Jacqueline de Harlay

Madeleine de Saint-Joseph

dedication Maria
Web link www.carmel.asso.fr/
location
country France
region Rhône-Alpes
Department Métropole de Lyon
local community Lyon
Arrondissement 5.
Coordinates 45 ° 45'34 N
4 ° 49'03 O

The Carmel de Lyon (or Carmel de Fourvière ) is still an active religious institution today. As the name suggests, it is founded and run by the Carmelites . Founded in 1616 on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse , near the amphitheater des Trois Gaules , it was closed during the Revolution. Thanks to the Concordat , the sisters were able to found a community again in 1804, this time on the hill of Fourvière , where the community is today.

history

Founding place of the monastery («Les Carmélites») on the hill of La Croix-Rousse (northeast, right in the picture)

Foundation on La Croix-rousse

The Carmel de Lyon was founded in 1616 by the governor of the city, Charles de Neufville , and his wife Jacqueline de Harlay, who brought seven nuns from Paris and initially invited them to visit. On October 9th, they took over their monastery on the hill of La Croix-Rousse, in the place called la Gella , above what would later become known as the square of the amphitheater of Lyon . Madeleine de Saint-Joseph was the first prioress; she came with five sisters of the Carmel de l'Incarnation de Paris and an avowed sister of the Carmel de Tours .

The Carmel is under the direct protection of the de Villeroy family , who used it as a burial place for family members for almost two centuries. Since its inception - and until today - the house has been called the Madonna of Compassion ( French Notre-Dame de Compassion ).

Since the monastery was originally founded in Lyon without royal approval, this situation was remedied by a consular resolution of November 13, 1659 and the foundation of the monastery was postponed forty years; this procedure was simplified when the Archbishop of Lyon was then Camille de Neufville de Villeroy , son of the main founder.

The revolution

Mayor Palerne de Savy visited the monastery on May 11, 1790 , where he met thirty nuns and four converts who all wanted to stay. On January 8, 1791, a new provisional superior and economic director was appointed and finally elected by the community. on June 19, 1791 the church of the monastery was annexed to the parish of Saint-Louis; however, on October 4, 1792 (13 venedémiaire at I, revolutionary calendar ) the house was closed and the nuns evicted. Five of them were imprisoned and one, Anne Vial (Sœur Marie-Anne-Madeleine de la Croix), was executed on April 5, 1794 (16 germinal an II).

The Provisional House of Providence

In 1804 the community was re-established. However, the nuns were neither allowed to rebuild the monastery nor to wear the nuns' clothing. It was not until January 6, 1815, that Cardinal Fesch allowed them to meet in Montée Saint-Barthélémy in the House of Providence ( French maison de la Providence ).

The second Carmel on the Fourvière

On October 10, 1850, the Carmelite Sisters and the Order of the Visitation of Mary bought the land on which they built the present monastery; the foundation stone for the church was laid on April 26, 1853. The Carmelite Sisters moved into their new monastery on June 28, 1854.

The community blossomed. In 1900 the Carmelites founded a daughter house in Domrémy and entrusted the architect Louis Sainte-Marie Perrin with the construction.

In 1988 one of the nuns of the Carmelites of Lyon was part of a delegation sent to the Carmelites of Auschwitz to try to find an amicable solution to the problem of occupying a building in the extermination camp , in particular by suggesting that the Polish monastery should move. When the Carmel de Roanne closed in 2005 , several nuns came to the community of Lyon; since the Carmelites of Roanne had a partnership with those of Koupéla in Burkina Faso , this was transferred to Lyon.

literature

  • Jacques-Jules Grisard, Documents pour servir à l'histoire du couvent des Carmélites de Notre-Dame de la Compassion de Lyon , Lyon, Pitrat aîné, 1887, 413 p. (In: www.worldcat.org/ )
  • Adolphe Vachet, Les Carmélites , in: Adolphe Vachet, Les anciens couvents de Lyon , Lyon, Emmanuel Vitte, 1895, 692 p. (In: https://fr.wikisource.org )
  • Jean-Baptiste Martin, Bernardines; Carmelites; Clarisses; Bénédictines de Chazeaux; Saint-François de Sales; Calvaire , in: Jean-Baptiste Martin, Histoire des églises et chapelles de Lyon , B. I, Lyon, H. Lardanchet, 1908, 378 p. ( ISBN 978-2716507899 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jean-Baptiste Martin, Bernardines; Carmelites; Clarisses; Bénédictines de Chazeaux; Saint-François de Sales; Calvaire , in: Jean-Baptiste Martin, Histoire des églises et chapelles de Lyon , B. I, Lyon, H. Lardanchet, 1908, 378 p., ISBN 978-2716507899
  2. ↑ a b c Pierre Guichard, L'Atelier numérique de l'Histoire - La fondation du Carmel de Lyon
  3. ↑ Adolphe Vachet, Les Carmélites , in: Adolphe Vachet, Les anciens couvents de Lyon (pp. 211–231), Lyon, Emmanuel Vitte, 1895, 692 pp.
  4. ↑ a b c Musée du diocèse de Lyon
  5. ↑ Philippe Dufieux, Le Mythe de la primatie the Gauls: Pierre Bossan (1814-1888) et l'architecture religieuse en Lyonnais au XIXe siècle , Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2004, 311 pp, ISBN 9782729707262
  6. ↑ Read up on the French page .
  7. ↑ Thérèse Hebbelinck, L'affaire du carmel d'Auschwitz (1985–1993): Implication des Églises belge et française dans la résolution du conflit, Louvain-la-Neuve , Presses universitaires de Louvain, ARCA Sillages Collection , 2012, 162 pp. , ISBN 9782875580429
  8. ^ The notification of the partnership on the French side of the diocese