Bon Conseil Monastery

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Bon Conseil Monastery (Latin Abbatia BM de Boni Consilii ; French Abbaye Cistercienne Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil ) is a Trappist abbey in Canada , first in Saint-Romuald (today: Lévis , Chaudière-Appalaches ), since 2002 in Saint-Benoît -Labre, Beauce-Sartigan , Archdiocese of Québec .

history

For fear of the French law separating church and state (with the dissolution of the religious orders), the Bonneval monastery in Lévis in Canada founded the Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil (Maria Counselor) monastery as a refuge in 1902 , which became independent in 1923, became a priory in 1924 and in 1927 was raised to the abbey . After a hundred years the buildings had become too big for the community and they moved to newly constructed buildings 100 kilometers east in Saint-Benoît-Labre. A chocolate factory run by the nuns contributes to the maintenance of the monastery.

Superiors, prioresses and abbesses

  • Joseph Fabre (1902-1907)
  • Séraphine Vaissettes (1907-1919)
  • Michaél Brunet (1919–1921)
  • Charité Costecalde (1922–1933; first abbess)
  • Raphaël Leclerc (1933-1939)
  • Marie du Rosaire Lamarche (1939–1954)
  • Monique Carrier (1954–1972)
  • Françoise Lemieux (1972-1989)
  • Marie St-Pierre (1989-)

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Coordinates: 46 ° 3 '17.4 "  N , 70 ° 44' 25.5"  W.