Vézelise Capuchin Monastery
The Capuchin monastery Vézelise in Vézelise in the diocese of Nancy in France was the residence of various Roman Catholic congregations from 1632 to 1906 .
history
From 1632 until it was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1791, the Vézelise monastery, founded in 1583 by a wealthy nobleman (20 kilometers south of Nancy), was inhabited by Capuchins . A school order, the Frères de la doctrine chrétienne de Nancy , followed from 1822 to 1868. When in 1874 the new Swiss Federal Constitution decreed that abolished monastic communities were no longer allowed to live in Switzerland, the Cistercian women of the Rathausen monastery , who had survived as a community in various Swiss locations since 1848, had to leave the country and went to Vézelise, where they went with them Embroidery and agriculture made their living. After 30 years there, they were expelled again in 1902 by the anti-religious Third Republic and founded the Thyrnau Monastery in Bavaria , which still exists today. In Vézelise, the streets of Montée des Capucins and Chemin des Capucins are reminiscent of the former monastery.
literature
- 750 years of the Cistercian abbey Rathausen-Thyrnau 1245–1995. Town hall, Vézelise, Thyrnau . Thyrnau Abbey, Thyrnau 1995. 262 pages.
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 3356.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 199.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '7.1 " N , 6 ° 5' 1.9" E