La Patrie Monastery

Monastery La Patrie was from 1880 to 1882, a Canadian monastery of Trappist monks in La Patrie (Quebec) , Le Haut-Saint-François , Estrie , Archdiocese of Sherbrooke .

history

Father Jérôme (Vertume) Péloquin (born in Saint-Hyacinthe ), who entered the Sainte-Justine monastery , after its closure in 1872, moved to the Melleray monastery and became a subprior there , was welcomed by his Canadian friend Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne (1844– 1910) encouraged the establishment of the Bethléem monastery in La Patrie in 1880 . He succeeded in attracting two confreres and successfully clearing, building and cultivating them together with them. However, when the abbot of Melleray personally came for a visit in 1882, he got the impression that the monastery was unsustainable and dissolved it. Péloquin returned to Melleray in 1883.

literature

• Jean-Guy Lavallée: L'Église de Sherbrooke et les Trappistes (1880-1948). In: Sessions d'étude. Société Canadienne d'Histoire de l'Eglise Catholique. Vol. 41, 1974, pp. 9-24, doi : 10.7202 / 1007239ar .

Web links

• Mention of the former “Betleem” monastery on the Trappist homepage
• Information about Father Péloquin
• Photo of Father Péloquin
• Mention of La Patrie Monastery
• Brief history of the monastery, in French, with picture

Coordinates: 45 ° 24 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 71 ° 14 ′ 58.8 ″  W.