Eugène de Laprade
Eugène Bonhomme de Laprade (* 1763 or 1764 in Carcassonne ; † June 16, 1816 in Verlaine ) was a French clergyman and from 1806 to 1816 abbot of the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery .
Life
The industrialist's son Eugène Bonhomme de Laprade from Carcassonne entered the La Trappe monastery in Soligny in 1790 and shortly before it was dissolved during the French Revolution, he went into exile in Switzerland with the former novice master Augustin de Lestrange . As a member of a group destined for Canada , he traveled to Belgium and was ordained a priest in Brussels . Since the port of Antwerp was blocked, the monks could not embark and instead founded the later Trappist Abbey of Westmalle in June 1794 . Soon expelled from there, they came to the Münsterland , where they founded the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery in 1795 , which lasted until 1825. There Laprade was elected abbot in 1806 and 1808 benediziert .
When Napoleon abolished the Trappist monasteries in 1811, he went into hiding and only on August 20, 1814 together with Bernard de Girmont at one of King Louis XVIII's. granted audience again in appearance, during which he obtained permission for the Darfeld monks and nuns to return to France. In 1815 he founded the Port-du-Salut monastery near Laval . He died in 1816 in the Borsu mansion in Verlaine, Belgium, where the Darfeld nuns and sisters found exile after they were expelled in 1811.
literature
- Wilhelm Knoll: 30 years of the Trappist branch in Darfeld, Aachen 2012.
- Eugène Bonhomme de Laprade in the Biographia Cisterciensis , version of January 21, 2013
Web links
- Eugène de Laprade in the Cistopedia - Encyclopædia Cisterciensis
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| SURNAME | Laprade, Eugène de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laprade, Eugène Bonhomme de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman and abbot of the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery (1806–1816) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1763 or 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carcassonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1816 |
| Place of death | Verlaine |