Calvaries

The Calvarists - in full name priests of Our Lady of the Calvary - were a Catholic religious order for priests .

The community was founded by the French priest Hubert Charpentier (1556–1650) in the Pyrenees town of Bétharram to take care of the local Mother of God pilgrimage ; Charpentier was active as a pastor in Bétharram from around 1622 and had a calvary built. In 1633 he was commissioned by King Ludwig XIII. with erecting a Calvary in Mont Valérien near Paris; Charpentier also founded a community of priests there that offered retreats .

Both communities were abolished in the French Revolution .

Literature and source

• Karl Suso Frank : Calvary. III. Religious communities . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 1153 .