Consolation Monastery (China)
Monastery Consolation was from 1883 to 1947 (1954), a Chinese monastery of Trappist monks in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing .
history
French monks of the monasteries Tamié and Sept-Fons founded the monastery Notre-Dame de la Consolation / Our Lady of Consolation ( Our Lady of Consolation ) in Yangjiaping near Beijing in 1883 , which was elevated to a priory in 1886 and an abbey in 1891 . It has been visited several times from Europe , including twice by Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1906 and 1929). Pope Pius XI mentioned it in the missionary encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae . The abbot was arrested in 1945, and in 1947 33 monks died during arrest or in prison. The monastery was devastated. A remainder of monks under Jean-Marie Struyven was able to hold onto another place until 1954.
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Ephrem Seignol (1883-1886)
- Bernard Favre (1886–1900, first abbot from 1891)
- Maur Weychard (1900-1919)
- Albéric Atche (1919–1921)
- Louis Brun (1921-1941)
- Alexis Baillon (1941-1949)
- Michel Shu (1946–1947)
- Jean Marie Struyven (1947–1951)
- Benoît Wang (1951–)
Foundations
- 1896: Phare Monastery in Japan.
- 1927: Lantao monastery , first Liesse / Joy monastery near Zhengding , persecuted, from 1950 on Lantau Island .
literature
- Gerolamo Fazzini, Il libro rosso dei martiri cinesi. Testimonianze e resoconti autobiografici , Milan, Paoline, 2006.
- Le livre rouge des martyrs chinois , Paris, Salvator, 2007.
- The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs , San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 2009.
- Irénée Henriot and Joseph Dong, Les Martyrs de N.-D. de Consolation et de N.-D. de Liesse , Vitorchiano 2006 (Témoins Cisterciens de notre temps, 30 pages).
- Giovanni Hoyois, Un moine d'aujourd'hui, le Père Jean-Marie Bernard Struyven Cistercien, 1897–1959 , Brest 1961.
- Thomas Merton , The Waters of Siloe , New York, Harcourt, 1949.
- Theresa Marie Moreau, Blood of the Martyrs. Trappist Monks in Communist China , Los Angeles, Veritas Est Libertas, 2012.
- Paolino Beltrame Quattrochi, Monaci nella Tormenta. La Passio dei monaci trappisti de Yan-Kia-Ping e di Liesse testimoni della fede nella Cina di Mao-Tze-Tung. Moines in the tourmente. Monks in the blizzard , Cîteaux 1991 (Cîteaux - Commentarii Cisterciensis. Textes et documents 3, collective publication in Italian, French, English).
- RG Tiedemann, Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries , London / New York, Sharpe, 2009 (p. 25).
Web links
- Page Monastery Consolation in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
- Page Kloster Consolation on the homepage of the Trappists
- Report on the atrocities , English
- Anthony E. Clark, China's Modern Martyrs: From Mao to Now. The untold story of the Communist destruction of the Our Lady of Consolation Trappist Abbey at Yangjiaping in 1947, in: The Catholic World Report (Ignatius Press) June 13, 2013, illustrated
- Anthony E. Clark, China's Modern Martyrs: From Mao to Now (Part 2). The little-known story of the murder of 33 Trappist monks by Chinese Communists in 1947, in: The Catholic World Report (Ignatius Press) September 13, 2013, illustrated