Santo Stefano del Bosco Monastery

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Coordinates: 38 ° 33 ′ 57 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 6 ″  E

The main portal of the monastery

The Santo Stefano del Bosco monastery is a Carthusian monastery that belonged to the Cistercian order from the end of the 12th century to 1514 (according to other information only until 1411) , in Calabria , Italy , 36 km southeast of Vibo Valentia . It is located in the municipality of Serra San Bruno in the province of Vibo Valentia .

The monastery is one of three existing Carthusian monasteries in Italy. Another brother monastery, the Certosa di Farneta , is located in Maggiano near Lucca in Tuscany . A charterhouse, the Certosa della Trinità near Dego in the Liguria region , is inhabited by nuns .

history

The monastery in the 17th century

In 1091 Bruno von Cologne , the founder of the Carthusians , accompanied Pope Urban II to Calabria. The place that Bruno considered suitable for hermitic life in the mountains near Mileto was given to him by Roger I , Count of Calabria and Sicily, and confirmed in a Greek-Latin document in 1091 by Bishop Theodor von Squillace . Under Bruno's successor Lanuinus , a monastery was set up in Montauro for those monks who preferred a communal life according to the Rule of St. Benedict. Lanuinus was commissioned several times by Pope Paschal II to regulate the affairs of neighboring Benedictine monasteries. The third Magister Lambertus finally built a monastery for the Koinobites at the current location.

Since the vast majority of the monks no longer lived as hermits, the prior Wilhelm sought admission to the Cistercian order, which was the daughter of Fossanova Monastery from the affiliation of the Clairvaux Monastery Abbey . The papal approval of this transition was given by Celestine III. in 1192. Only the coming one brought the decline.

In 1514 Pope Leo X approved the returning Carthusians to practice the cult of St. Bruno. The monastery was renewed by the Carthusians. After a devastating earthquake in 1783, the monastery fell into disrepair and was abandoned by the Carthusians. In 1808 it was abolished under the rule of Joseph Bonaparte .

In 1840 (according to other sources, 1856, 1887 or 1900) the monastery was reoccupied by the Carthusians and restored according to plans by the French architect Pichat. Another restoration took place between 1985 and 1991.

Plant and buildings

Model of the monastery complex

The impressive facade ruins of the Carthusian monastery from the 16th century have been preserved. The reassembled altar ciborium is in the Chiesa dell'Addolorata in Serra S. Bruno.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abbazie Cistercensi d'Italia , o.O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, p. 54.
  • Valentino Pace: Art monuments Italy: Apulia - Basilicata - Calabria ; Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 1994, pp. 460-461, ISBN 3-534-08443-8 , m. Fig. Of the facade.

Web links

Commons : Certosa di Serra San Bruno  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walther Holtzmann : Italia Pontificia 9, Berlin 1962, pp. 65, 68
  2. ↑ Italia Pontificia 9, pp. 69-72
  3. ↑ Italia Pontificia 9, p. 74, No. 21.
  4. ^ Italia Pontificia 9, p. 66