Boscodon Monastery

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Boscodon Monastery (2007)

The monastery Boscodon in Crots ( Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap ) belonged from 1142 to 1408 to the Order of Chalaisianer , from 1408 to 1600 for Benedictine - Abbey Sacra di San Michele , was independent until 1769, was from 1972 to 2000 by a Dominican community populated and is since then the place of residence of the “Community of Saint Dominic” (men and women). The monastery has been classified as a Monument historique since 1989 .

history

Chalaisian monastery

Bernhard, abbot of Chalais monastery , sent Guigues von Revel, later Bishop of Digne , to found the Boscodon monastery (after the name of the mountain valley) in 1142 southwest of Embrun deep in the forest at an altitude of 1150 m. It was from there that the Prads-Faillefeu monastery (in Prads-Haute-Bléone ) was founded in 1144 and that of the Lure monastery north of Saint-Étienne-les-Orgues in 1160 . Since Chalais belonged to the Carthusians from 1303 , Boscodon took over the role of the mother monastery of the Chalaisians until it became Benedictine itself in 1408 and the order thus expired.

Benedictine monastery

From 1408 Boscodon sur Abbey belonged to Sacra di San Michele west of Turin , had a second bloom from 1596 to 1680 under Abbots Abel and François de Sautereau (independent from 1601) and was dissolved in 1769 by the Archbishop of Embrun , Pierre-Louis de Leyssin (1721–1801) who targeted the rich forest. The buildings used for agriculture since the French Revolution were repopulated in 1972 by the Dominican Sisters of Oullins , who moved to Chalais in 1963 . From this a pious community of men and women developed around the turn of the millennium, which lives in the place under the name “Community of Saint Dominic” to this day.

Buildings

The Romanesque monastery church in its extreme simplicity is reminiscent of the early Cistercian churches . The convent buildings have been completely restored since 2012.

literature

  • L'abbaye de Boscodon, 1132-2007. Here et aujourd'hui . Abbaye de Boscodon, Crots 2007.
  • Frédérique Barbut: La Route des abbayes en Provence . Ouest-France, Rennes 2019, pp. 94-101.
  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995, columns 445-446.
  • Christian Gay: Être (s) à l'abbaye de Boscodon. Aproche de l'evolution des modes de vie à l'abbaye de Boscodon . Association des amis de l'abbaye de Boscodon, Crots 2006.
  • Jean Mansir: Dieu et l'homme dans l'abbatiale de Boscodon . Association des amis de l'abbaye de Boscodon, Crots 2008.
  • Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 490.
  • Nombre et lumière. Recherches sur l'architecture romane à l'Abbaye de Boscodon . Association des Amis de l'Abbaye de Boscodon, Crots 2007.
  • L'ordre de Chalais et l'abbaye de Valbonne. Histoire et archeology. Actes du colloque tenu à Valbonne les 5 and 6 février 1999 . Fédération historique de Provence, Marseille 2001. (= Provence historique. Revue trimestrielle , volume 51, fascicle 205)
  • Sœur Jeanne Marie (* 1926): La clarté des pierres. Entretiens avec Guillaume Goubert . Cerf, Paris 2006 (preface by Timothy Radcliffe )
  • Soeur Jeanne-Marie: Les âges dans nos vies. Entretiens avec Arnaud de Coral . Cerf, Paris 2012. (Foreword by Bruno Cadoré )

Web links

Commons : Abbaye Notre-Dame de Boscodon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ancienne abbaye de Boscodon in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 44 ° 30 ′ 2 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  E