Arabona Monastery
| Arabona Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Arabona Abbey Church |
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| location |
 Italy AbruzzoRegion Province of Pescara |
| Coordinates: | 42 ° 18 '8 " N , 14 ° 3' 43" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
557 |
| Patronage | St. Mary (mother of Jesus) |
| founding year | 1209 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1587 |
| Mother monastery | Tre Fontane Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Arabona Monastery (Santa Maria di Arabona) is a former Cistercian abbey in Abruzzo , Italy . It was located in the municipality of Manoppello on a hill above the right bank of the Pescara river in the province of Pescara , in the diocese of Chieti .
history
It was founded in 1209 by the Tre Fontane monastery near Rome . The monastery thus belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The first abbot was the monk Albimano from the monastery of Ferraria . In 1259 the monastery of Santa Maria dello Sterpeto near Barletta , which was newly assigned to the Cistercian order, was subordinated to the Arabona monastery. The Coming was also set up in Arabona . The Cistercians later left the monastery, which is said to have been no longer inhabited as early as 1412 and was united with the Roman Apostles' Basilica in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. Minorites then moved into Arabona . Today the monastery is inhabited by the Salesian Fathers.
Plant and buildings
The three-aisled monastery church made of light Roman travertine from Tivoli with a rose window in the apse and in the transept is one of the most magnificent of the Cistercian order in Italy. Only the first yoke of the nave was completed. It contains a Gothic tabernacle. The rear wall of the apse is decorated with three paintings by Antonio Martini di Atri from 1377. The enclosure is partially preserved. After the Second World War, the church, the forestry and the chapter house were restored.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini, Breve prospetto delle abazie cistercensi d'Italia , oO. (Casamari), 1964, pp. 106-107, without ISBN;
- Lorenzo Bartolini Salimbeni, Allessandra Di Mattei, S. Maria Arabona, una abbazia cistercense in Abruzzo , CARSA 1999, ISBN 88-85854-68-0 .
- Willemsen, Roger: The Abruzzo. The mountains in the heart of Italy. Art, culture and history. Cologne 1990, p. 109
