De viridario Beatae Mariae monastery
| Cistercian convent De viridario Beatae Mariae | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Greece Peloponnese Messinia |
| Coordinates: | 36 ° 50 '14.1 " N , 21 ° 43' 26.2" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | unknown |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1266 |
The monastery De viridario Beatae Mariae , also Sancta Maria de Viridario , was a Franconian Cistercian monastery in the principality of Achaia in Messenia near Methoni in the Peloponnese in Greece .
history
Information on the establishment of the De viridario Beatae Mariae ("Garden of the Blessed Virgin Mary") convent under the Frankish crusader rule in the Peloponnese and the further history of the Marian monastery in the Viridarium ("garden") has not been preserved. The first historical evidence of the convent's history comes from the time when the convent under the abbess Demeta Palaeologina (also in the spelling Palaeologa) had to flee from Greece in the course of the decline of Frankish rule in 1266 and the monastery of San Benedetto in Conversano in southern Italy, which was abandoned by the Benedictines , was rebuilt populated. There the convent was placed under the supervision of the abbot of the Daphni monastery near Athens by resolution of the general chapter of the Cistercian order .
Plant and buildings
The Greek archaeologist Charalambos Bouras identified the church ruins of St. Leon in Agioleos (two kilometers northwest of Methoni) as the former monastery church of the Cistercians. The building was a three-aisled basilica with semicircular apses.
literature
- Peter Lock: The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500 , New York 1995, p. 225.
- Michalis Olympios: Between St Bernard and St Francis: A Reassessment of the Excavated Church of Beaulieu Abbey , in: Architectural history 55, 2012, pp. 25–55.
- Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis: The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece , Leeds 2008, pp. 98-99.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted in: Olympios, p. 31.