Petit Clairvaux monastery

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Abbey Petit-Clairvaux (also: Tracadie ) was from 1825 to 1901, a Canadian monastery of Trappist monks in Tracadie (today Monastery), east of Antigonish , Antigonish County , Nova Scotia . It is not to be confused with the Cistercian Abbey of Petit-Clairvaux in France.

history

In 1819 the Trappist Vincent de Paul Merle founded the Notre-Dame du Petit Clairvaux convent in Tracadie, Nova Scotia (beginning of monastic life in 1825). From October 1823 to June 1825 he came to France and looked for four comrades-in-arms, including the priest François-Xavier Kaiser (1785-1862). On a recent trip to Europe from 1836 to 1838, the Pope placed the monastery with 12 monks, as well as the assigned women's monastery with 9 nuns, formed in 1826 from domestic candidates, under the supervision of local bishop William Fraser (1779-1851), who called Merle back to Canada. There he handed over the management of the Trappist monastery to Kaiser in 1840 and retired to the Trappist monastery. His ongoing efforts to stabilize Petit Clairvaux were only successful posthumously when, in 1858, monks from the Abbey of Saint Sixtus in Belgium rushed to Canada for a successful reinforcement and a sort of second foundation took place. In 1901 the monastery was re-established by Abbot Murphy as "Monastery Notre-Dame de la Vallée" ( Our Lady of the Valley ) in the diocese of Providence , Rhode Island . Petit Clairvaux passed into the hands of the Timadeuc monastery and served as a refuge from the law separating church and state in France until 1919 . From 1938 the St Augustine's Monastery of the Augustinian order was here , from 2000 the monastery Our Lady of Grace Monastery of the Maronites , then the Augustinians .

Tracadie, Nova Scotia, should not be confused with Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick .

Foundations

Superiors and abbots

  • Vincent de Paul Merle (1825-1853)
  • François Xavier Kaiser (1853-1857)
  • Jacques Deportemont (1857–1876)
  • Dominique Schietecatte (1876–1898, first abbot)
  • John-Mary Murphy (1898-1907)

literature

  • Ephrem Boudreau: Le Petit Clairvaux. Cent ans de vie cistercienne à Tracadie en Nouvelle-Ecosse, 1819–1919. Editions d'Acadie, Moncton 1980, ISBN 2-7600-0041-9 .
  • Guy Laperrière: Les congrégations religieuses. De la France au Québec, 1880-1914. Volume 2: Au plus fort de la tourmente, 1901–1904. Presses de l'Université Laval, Sainte-Foy 1999, ISBN 2-7637-7631-0 .
  • Thomas Merton : The Waters of Siloe. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York NY 1949, pp. 93-100.
  • Luke Schrepfer: Pioneer Monks in Nova Scotia. St. Augustine's Monastery, Tracadie 1947.

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