Carmelite Convent Paris
Founded around the middle of the 12th century on the Carmel Mountains and by Pope Honorius III. In the year 1226 raised to the order of the Carmelites (French: Carmes ) owned several monasteries in Paris . The first six friars, also called Carmes barrés or Barrés for short because of their striped coat in France , came in 1254 in the wake of King Louis IX, who was returning from the Sixth Crusade . to Paris.
The Carmelite Monastery at Port Saint-Paul (1254–1309)
The first Carmelite monastery in Paris and its small church were built with the support of the king on the Rive Droite , in the flood-threatened Marais , not far from the port of Port Saint-Paul (now Port des Céléstins). Outside the city wall of Philipp-August , it occupied the site of the former "Folie Morel" in rue de la Folie Morel , which was soon renamed rue des Barrés (today rue de l'Ave-Maria in the 4th arrondissement ) . In the immediate vicinity, but within the city wall, Ludwig IX settled. in 1258 a community of Flemish Beguins .
The dilapidation of the "Folie Morel" and the danger of flooding caused the Carmelites to temporarily settle in rue des Sept-Voies (today rue Valette, 5th arrondissement ) on the northern slope of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève between 1309 and 1317 .
The Carmelite Monastery on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève (1317–1790)
Thanks to a donation from Philip IV († 1314), the Carmelites finally set up a few houses in the lower area of the Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement in 1317 . The area of the Couvent des Carmes Barrés built there, later also called Couvent des Grands-Carmes , on which the Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel church rose, expanded rapidly through the purchase of neighboring properties. In the second half of the 18th century it corresponded to the current district between the Boulevard Saint-Germain , the Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, the Rue du Sommerard (formerly Rue des Noyers) and the Rue des Carmes. During the French Revolution , the monastery was closed in 1790. The convent building was demolished in 1811.
Funerals
The following were buried in the Couvent des Grands-Carmes:
- 1441: Margaret of Burgundy, the eldest daughter of Johann Ohnefurcht , Duke of Burgundy , and widow of the Dauphin Ludwig von Guyenne
- 1555: Oronce Finé , mathematician and cartographer
- 1568: Gilles Corrozet , printer, bookseller, historian and poet
- 1762: Jean Truchet (P. Sébastien), friar, scholar
The Discalced Carmelite Monastery on Rue de Vaugirard (1616–1792)
In 1611 the first Discalced Carmelites from Italy arrived in Paris and were temporarily assigned a house on Rue Cassette. Meanwhile, on February 17, 1613, at 70 rue de Vaugirard, Nicolas Vivien laid the foundation stone for a new convent of the Discalced Carmelites and the Queen Mother Maria de Medici that of the monastery church on July 20 of the same year. The buildings were ready for occupancy in 1616, the church was completed on December 21, 1620 and consecrated to St. Joseph on December 21, 1625 by Léonor d'Etampes-Valençay, Bishop of Chartres .
The Discalced Carmelite Monastery in the Rue des Archives (1633–1790)
In 1633, the Parisian branch of the Frères de la Charité Notre-Dame, founded in 1286 in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne, was left to the Discalced Carmelites due to the lack of discipline. The former monastery site, on which the only surviving medieval cloister in Paris (1427) stands, was located between the streets of Rue des Billettes (now Rue des Archives), Rue Sainte Croix de la Bretonnerie, Rue de la Verrerie and Rue de Moussi. The dilapidated church was replaced by today's Église des Billettes from 1756 to 1758 . The monastery was closed during the revolution in 1790.
Funerals
In the original church, the heart was buried by:
- Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683), historian
The Paris Carmelite Monastery in the Present
After it had been located in Villa de la Réunion No. 5 in the 16th arrondissement since 1925 , the convent temporarily rented a building owned by the diocese, next to the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur in the Cité du Sacré, from February 2009 -Coeur No. 4 was on Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement , in the immediate vicinity of the Carmelite Convent on Rue du Chevalier de la Barre. The move was explained by the purchase contract signed with the Marist Fathers in October of the previous year , which brought the Carmelites into possession of a larger monastery complex in the 6th arrondissement and required the sale of the previous house. The renovation of the future House of the Carmelites was completed in 2011, which marked the four hundredth anniversary of the recognition of the first Discalced Carmelite Monastery by the Paris Parliament.
Carmelites
Thanks to generous donations from the widowed Duchess of Longueville , mother-in-law of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé , Carmelite convents were located at 284 rue Saint-Jacques from 1603 and in rue Transnonnain (today rue Chapon, 62/64) from Christmas 1617. founded. In 1657 a subsidiary was founded in Rue Coquillière No. 29, which in 1688 moved to Rue de Grenelle No. 122.
literature
- Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire Historique des rues de Paris . Éditions de Minuit, Paris 1985 (EA Paris 1963).
- 1985, ISBN 2-7073-1052-2 .
- 1985, ISBN 2-7073-1053-0 .