Frénouville Monastery

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Frénouville Monastery was a Trappist monastery in Frénouville ( Calvados Department ) from 1816 to 1817 .

history

In 1816, Augustin de Lestrange founded the Notre-Dame de Toute Consolation (Maria Trösterin) monastery in Frénouville near Caen for part of the Trappist women migrating back from Riedera monastery in Switzerland to their native France , but the founding proved to be unsustainable, so that the After six months, the nuns moved on to Lyon , the hometown of Matron Marie du Saint-Esprit (Dorothée) Allard (* 1755), first to Caluire (today: Caluire-et-Cuire ) near Lyon, and from there in 1820 to the Lyon-Vaise monastery .

literature

  • Immo Eberl : The Cistercians. History of a European Order . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007.
  • Josiane Ferrari-Clément: Fous de Dieu. Récit d'une odyssée trappiste 1793–1815 . Cerf, Paris 1998.
  • Marie de la Trinité Kervingant: Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines . Beauchesne, Paris 1989.
  • Wilhelm Knoll: 30 years of Trappist settlement in Darfeld 1795–1825. A contribution to the church history in the Coesfeld district . Bernardus-Verlag, Mainz 2012.
  • Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium. Tome I . Alfred Hoelder, Vienna 1877, S. LXXIV.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay: Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 . Cerf, Paris 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 13 ″  N , 0 ° 14 ′ 39 ″  W.