Lulworth Monastery

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Lulworth Abbey was a Trappist monastery near Lulworth Castle in Dorset from 1794 to 1817 .

history

Augustin de Lestrange sent a group of monks under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Desnoyers to Canada from the exile monastery of the French Trappists in the Charterhouse La Valsainte on August 28, 1793 , where they never arrived. Some founded Westmalle Monastery in what is now Belgium and then moved to Darfeld-Rosenthal Monastery . Desnoyers stayed in England and accepted Thomas Weld 's father's invitation to found a monastery near his Lulworth Castle in Dorset, not far from the former Bindon Abbey .

Lulworth Monastery, also called Little Bindon , was a refuge for French monks, and increasingly also for British and Irish postulants, until it was abandoned in 1817. The founder Desnoyers, who left the monastery and later the order, succeeded on May 17, 1802 as superior Bernard Benoist. From 1810 the monastery in Antoine Saulnier de Beauregard had an important personality as its prior. In 1813 Lestrange conferred the dignity of abbot ad personam on him. Saulnier left Lulworth in July 1817 with 60 monks and repopulated Melleray Monastery in France .

literature

  • (anonymous) Vie du RPD Antoine (Anne-Nicolas-Charles Saulnier de Beauregard), abbé de la Trappe de Melleray , Paris, Pihan de la Forest, 1840, 384 pages.
  • Immo Eberl , The Cistercians. History of a European Order , Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007.
  • Jérôme du Halgouët, (series of contributions in: Cîteaux (Commentarii cistercienses) 17, 1966 to 28, 1977, bibliographed in Laffay, p. 608).
  • Roland Jousselin, La double vocation de Jean-Baptiste Desnoyers (1768–1849) , Bégrolles-en-Mauges, Edition Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 2001.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965), Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 , Paris, Cerf, 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (passim).
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012 (page 924).

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