Lyon-Vaise Monastery

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Lyon-Vaise Monastery was a Trappist monastery in Lyon from 1820 to 1834 and from 1837 to 1904 .

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 Notre-Dame de toute Consolation (Maria Trösterin) in Frénouville, they went to Caluire (today: Caluire-et-Cuire ) near Lyon in 1817, retaining the name, and from there to Vaise (today: Vaise district in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon ), where they set up weaving mills. In 1827 the passing Lestrange died here. In 1834 the nuns left the revolution-torn Lyon and founded Maubec Monastery in Montélimar near Aiguebelle Monastery .

In 1837 some of the Maubec sisters went to Vaise for resettlement (as a priory), but were expelled in 1904 by the dissolution of the religious orders and settled in Rogersville (New Brunswick) in Canada ( Assomption Monastery ).

Remains in Lyon

Today the former monastery complex is located on the hillside under the A6 motorway bridge in a mixed area of ​​apartments and workshops, near the very modern study and business district Gorge de Loup . La Trappe is the stop of bus line 19. Remnants of the monastery buildings and the monastery garden have been preserved. An inscription can be deciphered on the monastery portal ( Rue des Deux Amants ): NOTRE DAME DE TOUTE CONSOLATION ET PITIE. The gable of the still existing monastery building ( visible from Avenue Sidoine Apollinaire ) is decorated with a statue of the Madonna with the baby Jesus in her arms. On the opposite side of the building (in the Impasse de la Trappe ) the entrance arch is noticeable. At the confluence of the Rue des Deux Amants with the Avenue Sidoine Apollinaire, an inscription was carved in stone: Dom Augustin de L'Estrange / séjourna et mourut / en ce lieu / où se levait le monastère des trappistines de Vaise / † / Pèlerin de l 'absolu / il préserva dans la tourmente (1791–1815) / la flamme de Cîteaux. (Dom Augustin de L'Estrange stayed and died in this place where the monastery of the Trappists of Vaise stood. In the storm of the years 1791 to 1815, as a pilgrim of the absolute, he guarded the flame of Cîteaux).

Foundations

Superiors

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.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ruesdelyon.net/rue/1569-rue-des-deux-amants.html
  2. ↑ https://www.ruesdelyon.net/rue/1302-rue-sidoine-apollinaire.html
  3. ↑ https://www.ruesdelyon.net/impasse/1561-impasse-de-la-trappe.html

Coordinates: 45 ° 46 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 4 ° 47 ′ 50 ″  E