Gardes Monastery

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Notre-Dame des Gardes abbey church

Monastery Notre Dame des Gardes (lat. Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Custodiis ) is a Trappist - abbey in Saint-Georges-des-Gardes ( department of Maine-et-Loire , France ).

history

The Trappist women who wandered back to their native France from Riedera Abbey in Switzerland in 1816 were split up by the founder of the order, Augustin de Lestrange, into the short-lived foundations of the Forges Abbey and the Frénouville Abbey . From the monastery of Saint Archange Raphaël in Forges, a first group of nuns founded Notre-Dame des Gardes near Cholet not far from the monastery Bellefontaine in August 1818 . In the same year they were joined by the nuns who had moved from Forges to a foundation in Bégrolles-en-Mauges in 1817 and have now renounced this foundation. Finally, in 1821, the remainder of the sisters in Forges were moved to Gardes.

In 1906 the sisters fled from the dissolution of the religious orders under the law separating church and state and went to Marnhull, Dorset , England until 1920 . Then they returned to the properties bought back from a patron. The monastery oversees the pilgrimage to Notre-Dame des Gardes.

Foundations

Superiors

Prioresses

  • Thérèse Malatesta (1818–1829)
  • Humbeline Morinière (1829–1839)
  • M. de la Providence Olivier (1839-1845)
  • M. of the SC. Malles de Mailly (1845-1848)
  • Lutgarde Chapelain (1848-1851)
  • M. de la Providence Salts (1851-1857)
  • Eudoxie Pineau (1957-1869)
  • Léocadie Berger (1869–1874)
  • Synclétique Loréal (1874–1880)
  • Hyacinthe Pageau (1880-1911)
  • Bernard Deschère (1911-1923)

Abbesses

  • Cécile Chauvat (1923–1941)
  • Louis de Gonzague Le Nir (1941–1950)
  • Bernard Coutant (1950–1957)
  • Marie de la Trinité Kervingant (1957–1979)
  • Danièle Levrard (1979-1998)
  • Andrée Grollier (1998-2008)
  • Béatrice Blanloeil (since 2008)

literature

  • Immo Eberl , The Cistercians. History of a European Order , Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007.
  • Josiane Ferrari-Clément, Fous de Dieu. Récit d'une odyssée trappiste 1793–1815 , Paris, Cerf, 1998.
  • Marie de la Trinité Kervingant, Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines , Paris, Beauchesne, 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. Tomus I , Vienna, Alfred Hoelder, 1877, S. LXXIV.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965), Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 , Paris, Cerf, 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994.
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012 (pp. 276–277).

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Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′ 12.6 ″  N , 0 ° 44 ′ 12.7 ″  W.