Fossanova Monastery
| Fossanova Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Fossanova Monastery |
|
| location |
 ItalyRegion of Latium Province of Latina |
| Coordinates: | 41 ° 26 '17 " N , 13 ° 11' 45" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
90 |
| Patronage |
St. Maria St. Stephan |
| founding year | 1135 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1810 |
| Mother monastery | Hautecombe Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
Santo Stefano del Bosco |
Fossanova abbey is a former abbey of Benedictine , the Cistercian and later Carthusian monastery and today Franciscan convent in the town of Priverno in the Italian region Lazio . The monastery is an Italian national monument .
history
The Counts of Aquino are considered to be the founders of the monastery .
The abbey was founded by Benedictines by the ninth century at the latest . Pope Gregory IV (837–844) was previously a monk in Fossanova. The monastery was first named after Salvatore, later after St. Pudentiana and then after St. Stefan and Martin named.
In 1135 the abbey joined the Cistercian Order and submitted to the Hautecombe Abbey in Savoy from the affiliation of the Clairvaux Monastery Primary Abbey . The first Cistercian abbot Gerard was the sixth abbot of Clairvaux. The monastery provided several cardinals and bishops .
On March 7, 1274 Thomas Aquinas died in Fossanova . He was on his way from nearby Naples to the Second Council of Lyon .
The monastery was Mother Monastery of five other abbeys ( Monastery of Santo Stefano del Bosco in Calabria , Monastery Marmosoglio , Santa Maria della Ferraria , Monastery Corazzo and convent of Santo Spirito di Zannone ).
To 1457 which was in Fossanova Coming twist, yet the decline began the monastery. In 1623 the monastery of the Roman province joined the Italian Congregation of St. Bernard.
In 1810 the government of the Kingdom of Naples dissolved the monastery. In 1825 it was made by Pope Leo XII. transferred to the Carthusian monasteries of Trisulti , who stayed for around a century. Today the monastery is looked after by Polish friars of the Franciscan order .
Plant and buildings
The foundations for the new monastery church were laid in 1163 under Abbot Gerard and the church was completed in 1208. The Cistercian - Burgundian architectural style of the abbey, which was completed at the end of the 14th century, was later also a model for other southern Italian monasteries.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia , Casamari 1965, pp. 19-20.
