Port-du-Salut monastery
Trappist Abbey of Port-du-Salut | |
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Abbey building and abbey church |
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location |
France Mayenne department |
Lies in the diocese | Laval |
Coordinates: | 47 ° 59 '52.5 " N , 0 ° 44' 18.4" W |
founding year | 1815 (priory) 1816 (abbey) |
Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
Congregation | Trappists |
Daughter monasteries |
1868: Échourgnac Monastery (until 1910) |
Notre-Dame du Port-du-Salut Monastery (lat. Abbatia BM de Portu Salutis ) is a French Trappist - abbey in Entrammes at Laval in Mayenne .
history
On February 21, 1815, on the remains of a priory of the Congrégation de France in Entrammes, which had been closed by the French Revolution, the Trappists around Bernard de Girmont , who were returning from Darfeld Abbey, founded Jean-Baptiste Le Clerc de La with the help of the former Darfelder Donaten (monastery member without vows) Roussière, a friend of Girmont's, the first French monastery of the Restoration period and called it Port du Salut (Port of Salvation). They elected Girmont as their prior (under the Abbot Eugène de Laprade in Darfeld ) and from 1816 as their abbot.
The famous Port Salut cheese originated from the monastery (protected brand since 1874), the secret of which was brought from Darfeld but sold in 1959. The German counterpart is the Trappist cheese .
In the person of the historian Maur Cocheril, the monastery played a part in the creation (in 1970) of the partnership between Entrammes and the Westphalian town of Rosendahl , of which Darfeld is a district.
founding
- 1868–1910 Échourgnac Monastery (Notre Dame de Bonne-Espérance, today women's monastery)
Abbots
- Bernard de Girmont (Prior 1815-1816, Abbot 1816-1830)
- François d'Assise Couturier (1830-1854)
- Bernardin Dufour (1854-1859)
- Joachim Le Baillif (1859–1866)
- Henri Vandenbroucque (1865-1881)
- Eugène Bachelet (1881–1908)
- Berchmans Daveau (1908-1929)
- Edmond Neveu (1929-1954)
- Marie André (1954–1963)
- Alain Christiaen (1963–1986)
- Rémy Declercq (1987-2000)
- Jean-François Holthoff (2000-2003)
- Joseph Deschamps (2003-2018)
- Gérard-Marie Meneust (since 2018)
literature
- Immo Eberl : The Cistercians. History of a European Order. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007.
- Josiane Ferrari-Clément: Fous de Dieu. Récit d'une odyssée trappiste 1793–1815. Cerf, Paris 1998.
- Marie de la Trinité Kervingant: Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines. Beauchesne, Paris 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, pp. 233-239 and passim.
- Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium. Tomus I. Alfred Hoelder, Vienna 1877, S. LXXV.
- Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965): Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827. Cerf, Paris 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (passim).
Manual literature
- Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France. Editions du Crapaud, La Roche sur Yon 2013, p. 409 (with picture).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 282 (with picture).
Web links
- http://www.portdusalut.com/ (website of the monastery, French)
- http://www.cistopedia.org/index.php?id=6525 (entry in Encyclopædia Cisterciensis, with picture)
- http://www.entrammes.mairie53.fr/files/files_94/articles/Fiche14490.pdf (monastery history, French)