Charterhouse of Vedana
The Charterhouse of Vedana ( Certosa di Vedana , Certosa di San Marco di Vedana ) is a former monastery of the Carthusian Order near the Italian municipality of Sospirolo in the Dolomites .
history
The Charterhouse , most recently one of five monasteries of the Carthusian Order for nuns , existed as a monastery from 1457 with an interruption in the 18th century . According to a bull of Hadrian IV , a pilgrim hospice had existed on the site since the Middle Ages, dedicated to St. Markus was consecrated.
In 1521 the large cloister was added to the complex , and later a reliquary chapel . In 1619 it was also given to the patronage of St. Markus subordinate church consecrated . Two winged altars in the monastery church were painted by Sebastiano Ricci and show the baptism of Jesus and the Mother of God with the hll. Bruno and Hugo . In 1768 the Charterhouse was abolished by the Venetian Republic , as fewer than twelve monks lived in Vedana, and did not return to the hands of the Order until 1882. The French architect Jean François Pichat carried out the conversion into a monastery. In 1886 the church was consecrated again .
After the monks had finally left the Vedana Charterhouse in 1977, the Carthusian Sisters from the Italian Charterhouse of Riva di Pinerolo set up a convent there . Vedana was one of the Carthusian monasteries in which the nuns could live in their own cell houses analogous to the way of life of the monks . In 2014 the Charterhouse was closed in accordance with a resolution of the General Chapter of the Order in the previous year, as no new applicants had entered Vedana for a long time.
Web links
- The Charterhouse Certosa di Vedana on the website of the Belluno Dolomites National Park , accessed on July 29, 2018
Coordinates: 46 ° 9 ′ 53.2 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 32.2 ″ E