Capolago Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Capolago | |
|---|---|
| location |
 ItalyRegion Lombardy Province of Varese |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 47 '36 " N , 8 ° 48' 35" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
626 |
| founding year | 1235 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
before 1497 |
| Mother monastery | Chiaravalle Milanese Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Capolago Monastery (SS. Trinità di Capolago; SS Trinitas de Capite-Lacus) was a Cistercian monk abbey in Lombardy , Italy . Rs was in today's municipality of Varese , around 1 km north of the Buguggiate district of the municipality of Azzate in today's province of Varese , near Lake Varese .
history
The monastery was originally a Benedictine foundation from the middle of the 11th century. The monastery church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Milan , Guido da Velate. The within two centuries strong run-down monastery was reformed as Archbishop Guglielmo Rizolio of Milan in 1236 and founded in 1135 Chiaravalle Abbey from the filiation of the Branch Clairvaux assumed; Pope Gregory IX confirmed this in the same year. Arnoldo di Calabria was the first prior of the Cistercian monastery. The Cistercians built a new church or rebuilt the church of the Benedictine monastery. The monastery later fell into Kommende and no longer appears when the Italian Cistercian Congregation of St. Bernard was founded in 1497.
Plant and buildings
The church is now a parish church. Only the entrance arch and two stone capitals "in French taste" remain of the monastery.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini, Le abbazie cistercensi d'Italia , o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, p. 140.