Lucedio Monastery

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Lucedio Cistercian Abbey
Santa Maria di Lucedio
Santa Maria di Lucedio
location ItalyItaly Italy
region of Piedmont
province of Vercelli
Coordinates: 45 ° 14 '17 "  N , 8 ° 13' 57"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 14 '17 "  N , 8 ° 13' 57"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek
22nd
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1124
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1784
Mother monastery La Ferté Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Monastery Chiaravalle d'Ancona
Monastery Rivalta Scrivia
Monastery Chortaiton
Monastery of St. George of Jubin

Lucedio Monastery (Santa Maria di Lucedio) is a former Cistercian abbey in Piedmont , Italy . It is located in the municipality of Trino, in the province of Vercelli , near the Po river .

history

overall view

On March 21, 1124 the monastery of Ranieri di Monferrato was founded as the second daughter house of the primary abbey of La Ferté , possibly on the site of a previous Benedictine abbey . The name of the new abbey is derived from a forest called Locez. The abbey quickly gained great agricultural importance. The third abbot, Pietro I, became Bishop of Pavia in 1147 . Abbot Pietro II, who had accompanied Margrave Boniface I of Montferrat on the Fourth Crusade and was one of the electors of the Latin Emperor of Constantinople in 1204 , became Abbot of La Ferté in 1205, later Archbishop of Thessaloniki and in 1209 as Peter III. Patriarch of Antioch . His successor was Oglerio, who was later beatified in 1205 .

Lucedio was the mother monastery of Chiaravalle d'Ancona Monastery (1147, disputed), Rivalta Scrivia Monastery (1181) and Chortaiton Monastery near Thessaloniki (1214). Peter III tried to found a Cistercian monastery in the principality of Antioch . He finally succeeded when he converted the already existing monastery of St. George of Jubin into the Cistercian order in 1214 with the help of a founding convent from Lucedio.

In the 15th century, the Cistercians introduced rice cultivation . In 1457 Lucedio was taken over by Pope Kalixt III. given in coming . Under the Commendatar Abbot Francesco II Gonzaga , the monastery joined the Lombard Cistercian Congregation. In 1784 it was secularized and converted into an estate. In 1786 the monks moved to the abolished Jesuit college of Castelnuovo Scrivia .

After the French occupation of Piedmont, Lucedio passed to Napoleon, who handed it over to his brother-in-law, Prince Camillo Borghese , who was then chief governor of Piedmont, by decree in 1807 . In 1822 the Marchese Giovanni Gozani of San Giorgio took control of Lucedio (an ancestor of the current owner), who in turn ceded the estate to the Marchese Raffaele de Ferrari, Duke of Galliera in 1861. He was given the title of Prince of Lucedio and his wife Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari bequeathed her large art collection to the city of Genoa. In 1937 the entire complex was finally acquired by Count Paolo Cavalli d'Olivola, the father of the current owner and manager, Countess Rosetta Clara Cavalli d'Olivola Salvadori di Wiessenhoff.

The estate with the name Principato di Lucedio ( Principality of Lucedio ) mainly produces rice today.

Plant and buildings

The former chapter house

The monastery church of Santa Maria (now parish church) was renovated as a baroque hall building in 1769. It is dilapidated and cannot be visited at the moment (as of 2018). The original campanile on a Romanesque substructure from around 1170 is still preserved. The octagonal shaft can be dated to the first half of the 13th century. The square chapter house with nine bays over four columns from the middle of the 12th century (similar to the monastery Rivalta Scrivia ) has been preserved from the enclosure . The hostel from the end of the 13th century has also been preserved. There are several former grangia in the area .

literature

  • Leopold Janauschek: Originum Cisterciensium . Vienna 1877. (Entry XXII on pages 11 and 12.)
  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Le abazie cisterciensi d'Italia , Casamari 1964, p. 11 f., Without ISBN.
  • Heinz Schomann: Reclams Art Guide Italy Volume I, 2 , Stuttgart 1982, p. 415, ISBN 3-15-010305-3 .
  • Andrew Jotischky: The Perfection of Solitude: Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States . University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press 1995, ISBN 0-271-01346-X . (The work goes into the founding circumstances of the monastery of St. Georg von Jubin on pp. 58-59.)

Web links

Commons : Abbazia di Lucedio (Trino Vercellese)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bolognini, Daniele (2005). Beato Ogliero santiebeati.it (Italian)
  2. IL PRINCIPATO DI LUCEDIO. LEGGENDE E MISTERI PDF file on welovemercuri.com (Italian)