Belloc Monastery and Urt

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Benedictine Abbey Belloc (2010)

The Benedictine Abbey Belloc and Urt (French. Abbaye Notre Dame de Belloc et Monastère de Sainte Scholastique d'Urt ) is a double since 1875 monastery of the Benedictine and Benedictine in Urt ( Pyrénées-Atlantiques ) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayonne in France .

history

Foundation of the men's monastery

Jean-Léon Bastres (1832–1904), born in Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle in the French Basque Country , has been a priest in the Hasparren area since 1855 , was transferred to the Pierre-Qui- abbey founded by Jean-Baptiste Muard during the Franco-Prussian War . Vire attentively. Together with Basque colleagues he entered there in 1872, took the religious name Augustin and stayed until 1875. Then he returned home with three confreres and founded the Notre Dame de Belloc monastery between Urt and Hasparren in the Belloc district , in which the Founding convention in 1877 made solemn profession . In 1877 the monastery was elevated to a priory . The first prior was Dom Marian, after his death in 1887 he was succeeded by Bastres, who headed the monastery (with already 120 monks) , which was elevated to an abbey in 1890, as abbot until his death .

Interior of the abbey church

Displacement, return, resistance

In 1905 the male monastery was driven out by the Third Republic and went into exile in Lazkao in Spain. During the First World War , the monks were called up for military service. Then the republic tacitly renounced its church persecution and the convention was able to return to Belloc in 1926. During the occupation by the German Nazi regime between 1940 and 1944, the monastery was involved in supporting the Resistance . Abbot Jean-Gabriel Hondet and Prior Grégoire Joannateguy were deported to the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps , guest master Xavier Escartin (born February 26, 1907 - May 19, 1944) died in Mauthausen concentration camp . Today around 30 priests live in Belloc. The abbey church dates from the 1960s.

Founding of subsidiaries

  • Zagnanado ( Benin ) 1964-1989
  • Mont Thabor, Hekanmê, Attogom (Benin) 1998–

Foundation of the women's monastery

Monastery and Church of the Benedictine Sisters of Urt (2016)

In 1883, 500 m from the monastery and modeled on it, a pious community of sisters, some of which had completed the novitiate in Saint-Jean-d'Angély , founded the Sainte Scholastique monastery (after Scholastica of Nursia ). In 1888 the monastery was elevated to a priory , and in 1908 a novitiate was opened. Placide Lespade was the first prioress until 1924. The convent buildings were erected under Prioress Lespade. In 1939 the original monastery chapel from 1887 was replaced by a church that was consecrated in 1941 and, after renovation, in 1996.

literature

  • Michel Caillava: Fondation de l'abbaye de N.-D. de Bel-loc-sur-Joyeuse . Belloc 1950.
  • Les Bénédictines d'Urt. Journées du centenaire, 1883–1983 . Ezkila, Hasparren 1984.
  • Marc Doucet: Des hommes travaillés par Dieu. Histoire de l'abbaye de Belloc . Cerf, Paris 2009.
  • Marc Doucet: Petite histoire de l'abbaye de Belloc. Une aventure missionnaire et monastique: XIXe – XXIe siècles . Salvator, Paris 2013.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 26 '56.2 "  N , 1 ° 15' 44.8"  W.