La Coudre Monastery
| La Coudre Monastery | |
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 Cloister of the abbey |
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| location |
France Mayenne department |
| Lies in the diocese | Laval |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 3 '30.6 " N , 0 ° 46' 27.3" W |
| founding year | 1819 (priory) 1826 (abbey) |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
| Congregation | Trappist women |
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Daughter monasteries |
1841: Ubexy Monastery |
Notre-Dame de La Coudre Abbey (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Immaculata Conceptione ; French Abbaye Cistercienne La Coudre ) is a French Trappist abbey in Laval , Mayenne department .
history
The French-speaking Trappist women living in exile in the Darfeld monastery in Westphalia (established by Augustin de Lestrange ) , who in 1811 gave way to the edict of Napoleon to abolish the Cistercian order in the underground monastery Borsut (also: Borsu) near Verlaine in what is now Belgium, where they gave way to the clergy Headed by François-Marie Van Langendonck , took over the Sainte Catherine monastery , which was restored by the Darfeld abbot Eugène de Laprade on the basis of donations and donations in 1816 under their superior Elisabeth Piette at the gates of Laval in Grenoux , which was used as a priory in 1819 and as a Abbey was confirmed. From 1822 to 1858 they ran a girls' school.
In 1859 the nuns moved to the La Coudre Abbey, which they had newly built in the south of Laval (Avesnières), and in 1874 set up a cheese dairy based on the model of the nearby Trappist monastery of Port-du-Salut , which has existed since then and the cheese is sold under the Véritable Trappe brand sold. They built a church in 1877 (new building in 1994), a guest wing in 1967 and an old people's home in 1985. In addition, the richly populated monastery proved its dynamism through numerous foundings up to the most recent times, as well as through a comic published in 2015 with the title L'Abbaye cistercienne de La Coudre. 200 ans de veille aux portes de Laval. Tout prend vie quand passe l'esprit (The Cistercian abbey of La Coudre. 200 years watch at the gates of Laval. Where the spirit blows, everything comes to life).
Foundations
The following colonization attempts, settlements and foundations were made from the monastery of La Coudre (or Sainte Catherine):
- In 1836, additional settlement of Mondaye monastery in Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados department , failed; the sisters were divided between Gardes monastery in Saint-Georges-des-Gardes, Maine-et-Loire department , Lyon-Vaise monastery and Maubec monastery in Montélimar .
- 1837 New settlement of Mondaye monastery; 1845 relocation to La Cour-Pétral monastery in Boissy-lès-Perche ( Eure-et-Loir department ); from there in 1935 founding of Clairefontaine-Cordemois Monastery in Bouillon (Belgium) .
- 1841–2012 Ubexy Monastery in Ubexy (merged into Igny Monastery ).
- 1875 Sacré-Coeur Monastery in Mâcon ; expelled, founded in 1908 in Brazil by Tremembé Monastery ; 1921 relocation to Nova Friburgo ; 1929 relocation to Feluy Abbey in Seneffe , Belgium; 1932 relocation to Chambarand monastery .
- 1893–2011 Belval Trappist Abbey in Troisvaux, Pas-de-Calais department (merged into Igny Monastery ).
- 1903–1919 Notre Dame de Bonne Garde in Blitterswijck, Venray , Netherlands (intended as a refuge, abandoned due to floods).
- 1920 Sainte-Anne-d'Auray monastery ; 1953 Relocation to Campénéac Monastery , Brittany.
- 1929 Resettlement of Igny Monastery.
- 1968 Resettlement of Grandselve Monastery in Obout , near Mfou , Cameroon .
- 1981 Le Jassonneix monastery in Meymac , Corrèze department .
Further settlement aid for monasteries in Japan and Mexico.
Abbesses
- Elisabeth Piette (Superior 1811; Prioress 1819; Abbess 1827–1852)
- Marie-Joseph Guillot (1852–1855)
- Agathe Guyot (1856–1868)
- Clémence Brunetot (1868-1884)
- Emmanuel Joly (1884–1890) (The male first name must not be irritating.)
- Marie-Antoinette Leffry (1890-1900)
- Lutgarde Hémery (1900–1944)
- Sébastien Gaudin (Superior 1944–1945)
- Bernardine Nourry (1945–1954)
- Marie-Claire Lelu (1954-1965)
- Véronique Delebarre (1965–1988)
- Benoît Boucher (Administrator 1988–1989)
- Natalie Lebrun (1989–1995)
- Myriam Fontaine (1995-)
literature
- L'Abbaye Notre-Dame de La Coudre à Laval (Mayenne), par des Cisterciennes de La Coudre. In: Les Amis des Monastères. 137, January 2004, pp. 7-37.
- 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, pp. 240–243 and passim.
- Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965): Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827. Cerf, Paris 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (passim).
- Jean-Luc Roger: L'Abbaye cistercienne de La Coudre. 200 ans de veille aux portes de Laval. Tout prend vie quand passe l'esprit. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2015.
Manual literature
- Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France. Editions du Crapaud, La Roche sur Yon 2013, p. 408 (with picture).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 280–281 (with picture).
Web links
- http://www.abbaye-coudre.com/ (website of the monastery, French)
- http://www.cistopedia.org/index.php?id=10781 (entry in Encyclopædia Cisterciensis, with picture)