Congrégation de Solesmes
The Congregation of Solesmes or the French Benedictine Congregation (Latin Congregatio Solesmensis Ordinis Sancti Benedicti ) is one of the twenty independent congregations in the Benedictine Confederation .
Simultaneously with the elevation of the priory Saint-Pierre de Solesmes to the abbey in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI. founded the “French Benedictine Congregation” to unite the former congregations of Cluny, Saint-Vanne-et-Hydulphe and Saint-Maur.
development
The new congregation grew rapidly and from Solesmes was able to buy up and reopen various other monasteries that had fallen victim to the Reformation or the French Revolution and had been secularized : The monastery in Ligugé in 1853, Marseille in 1865, Silos in 1880, Wisques in 1889, Clervaux 1890, Sainte-Marie (in Paris) 1893, Saint-Wandrille 1894 and Kergonan 1897.
After the continued existence of the monasteries became impossible in 1901 as a result of the French church laws and the refusal of the Benedictines to submit to a French bishop, the monks had to go into exile. Therefore, the congregation founded various monasteries outside France, such as Saint-Benoît-du-Lac in Quebec or Quarr in England.
After the Second World War , the monks who had returned were able to found new monasteries, including the Fontgombault Abbey , which started out with subsidiaries in Africa and America.
organization
In 2009 the Congregation consisted of a total of 31 houses: 14 in France , 4 in Spain , 1 in Luxembourg , 2 in Great Britain , 2 in Canada , 1 in the Netherlands , 2 in Senegal , 1 in Lithuania , 2 in the USA and 2 Priories in Martinique . The main monastery that gives the congregation its name is the Abbey of St. Peter in Solesmes, the abbot of which is the born President of the congregation: since 1992 Dom Philippe Dupont .
List of houses
(Figures from May 2009)
- Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (1010) 66 monks
- Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Abbey (1999) ( Oklahoma , USA)
- Abbaye de Clervaux ( Luxembourg )
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Donezan (since 2008, successor to Gaussan Abbey)
- Fontgombault Abbey
- Monastère Notre-Dame de Ganagobie 18 monks
- Gaussan Abbey (1994 to 2008)
- Abbaye Sainte-Anne de Kergonan (1897) 34 monks
- Abbaye Saint-Michel de Kergonan , sisters
- Prieuré de Keur Guilaye ( Dakar , Senegal ), sisters
- Abbaye de Keur Moussa (1963) (Senegal) 44 monks
- Sainte-Marie-des-Anges priory (1977) (Le Carbet, Martinique ) 16 sisters
- Abbaye de Leyre ( Navarre , Spain) 24 monks
- Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé 28 monks
- Notre-Dame de Montserrat de Madrid priory 8 monks, dependent on silos
- Prieuré de Palendriai ( Kelmė , Lithuania ) 11 monks, dependent on Solesmes
- Abbaye Sainte-Marie , Rue de la Source, Paris , 7 monks
- Abbaye de Quarr ( Île de Wight , England ) 11 monks
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Randol (1971)
- Abbaye de Ryde (1882) (Île de Wight, England) 30 sisters
- Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac (1912) ( Québec , Canada ) 47 monks
- Abbaye Saint-Wandrille , 50 monks
- Abbaye Sainte-Marie-des-Deux-Montagnes ( Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac , Québec, Canada) 40 sisters
- Notre-Dame du Mont des Oliviers priory ( Schœlcher , Martinique), dependent on Solesmes
- Abbaye de Silos (941) ( Burgos , Spain ) 30 monks
- Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes 50 sisters
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Triors
- St. Benedictusberg Vaals Abbey (1951) (Netherlands) 18 monks
- Abbaye de la Sainte-Croix (1958) ( Valle de los Caídos , Spain) 27 monks
- Monastère du Cœur Immaculé de Marie de Westfield (Vermont) 17 sisters, dependent on Sainte-Marie-des-Deux-Montagnes
- Abbaye Saint-Paul of Wisques (1889) 24 monks
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Wisques (1889) 30 sisters