Carmelite Convent Roquebrune

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The Carmelite Monastery Roquebrune (also: Saint-Desert Notre-Dame-de-Pitié ) was from 1922 to 1947 a convent of Camaldolese and is since 1948 a hermitage of the Carmelites in Roquebrune-sur-Argens ( diocese of Fréjus-Toulon ) in the Var department in France.

history

Hermitage and pilgrimage

A hermit from Genoa , coming from Lérins , settled on a hill south of Roquebrune-sur-Argens around 1600, which dominates the estuary of the Argens . In 1649 a chapel was completed on site and in 1651 a hermitage was moved into, which was inhabited until 1704. The chapel was expanded in 1707 at the site developed as the place of pilgrimage Notre-Dame-de-Pitié (Maria Mitleid).

Camaldolese

In the course of the French Revolution , the buildings passed into private hands in 1795, who added other buildings. In 1922, the Camaldolese, who came from Italy, bought the property and built seven hermit houses. The statue of the Virgin Mary was solemnly crowned in 1931 by Bishop Augustin Simeone .

Carmelites

After the Camaldolese returned to Italy in 1947, they were followed in 1948 by French Carmelites ( Carmes Déchaux ) from the province of Avignon Aquitaine, who have lived there since then in a Saint-Désert (Holy Desert), a way of life that is similar to the Carthusian monks. Services and choir prayer take place in the Maria Mitleid chapel. The monastery has a painting of the Pietà (also: Vesper picture), as well as numerous votive tablets .

literature

  • Pierre de l'Incarnation, OCD: La colline du silence pur . Editions du Carmel, Tarascon 1950 (Miscelanea Carmelitana 9).
  • Roquebrune-sur-Argens. Églises et chapelles . Presses du Midi, Toulon 1999.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 26 '11.3 "  N , 6 ° 37' 53.9"  E