Divielle Trappist Monastery

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Divielle Trappist Monastery (around 1930)

The Trappist Monastery Divielle was a monastery of Spanish and French Trappists in Goos , Département Landes , France , Diocese of Dax from 1869 to 1930 .

history

Since the 12th century there was a (possibly Cistercian ) monastery called Dei Villa ("House of God", later: Divielle ) in today's village of Goos, 10 kilometers east of Dax , which belonged to the Premonstratensians from 1209 until the French Revolution but closed, sold and removed except for a few remains. By donation of the descendants of the buyer the ruins in 1868 came into the possession of the Bishop of Aire and Dax , Louis-Marie Olivier EPIVENT (1805-1876), who (as a native Breton wish) the settlement of Trappists and adhere to the Trappist abbey Désert turned . Thus in 1869 the community of the Spanish monastery Trapa of Santa Susana settled . After 1837, expelled from Spain , they had lived in various monasteries in France, including the Melleray monastery . Reconstruction was not yet complete when the anti-clerical Third Republic expelled the Spaniards in 1880, who, after numerous unsuccessful attempts at founding, were not able to gain a foothold in La Oliva monastery (Navarra) until 1927 . The French Trappists who remained in 1880 were allowed to resume the initially forbidden monastic life in the same year, but had little influx until 1920, monks of the dissolved English monastery Wood Barton , north of Kingsbridge, Devon (England) (since 1902 refuge for Melleray monastery), came to reinforce . Nevertheless, Divielle had to be closed in 1930. The remaining monks Pierre Bastié (* 1875 in Gamarde-les-Bains, Trappist 1911, † 1948) and Jean-Baptiste Marsan (* 1890 in Saint-Sever (Landes) , Trappist 1924, † 1973) became pastors in parishes near the monastery.

literature

  • Leopold Janauschek , Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus , Vindobonae 1877, S. LXXV.
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 45.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 44 '24.9 "  N , 0 ° 55' 25.3"  W.