Prouille Monastery
The monastery Prouille or Prouilhe ( Occitan : Prolha ) was founded in 1206 by Saints Dominic and Diego de Acebo in the hamlet of Prouille , which today belongs to the municipality of Fanjeaux in the French department of Aude ( Occitania region ). The nunnery is considered to be the cradle of the Dominican order .
history
A few years before the start of the Albigensian Crusade , St. Dominic, with the permission of the Bishop of Toulouse, Folquet de Marselha , built a monastery in what was then a dilapidated village and expanded it into a spiritual fortress against Catharism . Prouille became a haven for women who had converted from Catharism to Catholicism. The first nuns in Prouille belonged to the Augustinian order . On August 15, 1217, Dominic gathered his first followers in Prouille to send them into the world with the mission to preach. With the Bologna Concordat between Pope Leo X and the French King Francis I , the monastery lost its autonomy in 1516 and became a royal priory .
architecture
The monastery buildings including the church were completely destroyed during the French Revolution with the exception of a keystone and were rebuilt in the 19th century in a partially neo-Romanesque- Byzantine style according to plans by the Dominican Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire .
Repopulation
Henri Lacordaire discovered the place in 1852. Thanks to a wealthy donor, there was a first wave of reconstruction between 1857 and Lacordaire's death in 1861. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier won over the Dominicans of Nay (there until 1972) for a resettlement in 1880, which was viable thanks to numerous initial vocations and continues to this day. From 1955 Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski was the spiritual advisor .
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the monastery (French)
- Prouilhe Monastery - video
- Literature on Prouille in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
Individual evidence
- ↑ renovation project (Engl.)
Coordinates: 43 ° 11 ′ 16 ″ N , 2 ° 2 ′ 4 ″ E