Matina Monastery
| Matina Cistercian Abbey | |
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| location | Italy region Calabria province Cosenza |
| Coordinates: | 39 ° 34 '34 " N , 16 ° 8' 59" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
458 |
| Patronage | S. Maria |
| Mother monastery | Relocation of the Sambucina monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The monastery Matina is a former Benedictine abbey in Calabria , Italy , which in 1222 by the Cistercians was taken. It was about 4 km northeast of the bishopric of San Marco Argentano in the province of Cosenza on the river Fullone , which drains over the river Crati into the Ionian Sea.
history
By Robert Guiscard was and his wife Sikelgaita, at the request of Pope Nicholas II. A to 1065 Benedictine monastery founded. On March 31, the church was consecrated on the orders of Alexander II by Archbishop Arnulf of Cosenza and Bishops Oddo of Rapolla and Laurentius of Malvito . On November 18, 1092, Pope Urban II visited the monastery. Since Alexander II had already placed the abbey under papal protection, Matina is mentioned both in the older part of the Liber censuum and in the editorship of the chamberlain Cencius . The rich furnishings could not prevent a decline towards the end of the 12th century. Joachim von Fiore refused the offer of King Tankred to move his Fiore monastery to Matina, which was apparently already deserted. The speculations in the older Cistercian literature that Matina had been Cistercian since 1180, which Bedini repeats uncritically, are refuted by the documents from the Aldobrandini family archive. At the request of the Abbot Bonus of S. Maria di Sambucina , Honorius III. In October 1221 Archbishop Lukas von Cosenza , who had been abbot of Sambucina before his elevation to Archbishop, together with Bishop Andreas von San Marco Argentano, the responsible local bishop, to move the monastery Sambucina to Matina. The measure was approved by Emperor Frederick II in February 1222 and was confirmed by the Pope in June 1222. The name "Matina" remained the common one, sometimes there are additions such as "Matinae de Sambucina" or "Matinae dictum Sambucinae". Since 1410 the monastery was awarded as a commander . In 1633 it joined the Calabrian-Lucan Cistercian Congregation. In 1780 the monastery was abolished, but the new one continued to exist until 1809. Thereafter, General Luigi Valentoni received the monastery, who turned it into an agricultural enterprise.
The church was rebuilt by the Cistercians in the Gothic style. It is still partially there. The cross-ribbed vaulted chapter house with clustered Gothic columns reminiscent of those in Casamari Monastery, the parlatorium and the scriptorium have also been preserved as a chapel .
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- Alessandro Pratesi : Carte latine di abbazie calabresi provenienti dall'Archivio Aldobrandini (Studi e Testi 197), Città del Vaticano 1958
- André Guillou : Les archives grecques de S. Maria della Matina . In: Byzantion 36 (1966) pp. 304-310
literature
- Walther Holtzmann : The privilege of Alexander II for S. Maria Mattina , in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 34, 1954, pp. 65–87
- Dieter Girgensohn : Italia Pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum , t. X: Calabria - insulae . (Regesta pontificum romanorum: Italia pontificia) Zurich 1975, pp. 89-92
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia , o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 76-77.
- Valentino Pace: Art monuments Italy: Apulia - Basilicata - Calabria ; Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 1994, pp. 451-452, ISBN 3-534-08443-8 , m. Fig. Of a column in the chapter house.