San Benedetto Monastery in Conversano
| Cistercian Abbey of San Benedetto in Conversano | |
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 Italyregion of Apulia |
| Coordinates: | 40 ° 58 '4.1 " N , 17 ° 6' 55.7" E |
| Patronage | St. Benedict of Nursia |
| founding year | 1267 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1866 |
| Mother monastery | Daphni Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
The monastery of San Benedetto in Conversano was an important Cistercian abbey in Conversano in Apulia, Italy . The abbess of the Monastery of San Benedetto possessed due to a papal privilege by so much spiritual and temporal power that they had the right, as a sign of their office except the crosier and ring, the miter of a bishop to carry. This gave the first abbess Dameta Paleologo the nickname "Monstrum Apuliae" ("Apulian monster") on the part of the local bishops.
history
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Originally the monastery was a settlement of the Benedictines , according to tradition, founded in the 6th century by St. Maurus or St. Placidus . There is evidence that the monastery has existed since the 10th century. Under the Hohenstaufen it became a free imperial monastery. Charles I of Anjou abolished the abbey and reoccupied it in 1267 with Cistercian women who had fled Greece.
The Cistercian women came from the monastery De viridario Beatae Mariae in the diocese of Modon (today Methoni ) in the Peloponnese , which was founded there under the Frankish crusader rule. After the destruction of this convent by the Greeks, the nuns and their abbess Demeta Palaeologina were expelled. In 1271 the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order decided to place the Conversano Abbey under the supervision of the abbot of the Daphni Monastery near Athens and to appoint him as a visitor to the convent. Two visitations from Daphni are documented in the sources. In 1271 the abbot of Daphni presided over the election of a new abbess after Demeta's death; In 1283 an abbot named Peter visited the convent. The abolition of the monastery took place in 1866.
literature
- Walther Holtzmann : Italia Pontificia IX: Samnium - Apulia - Lucania . Berlin 1962, pp. 362-364.
- A. Covito: Conversano (BA). S. Benedetto . In: Monasticon Italiae III: Puglia e Basilicata a cura di Giovanni Lunardi, Hubert Houben , Giovanni Spinelli. Prefazione di Cosimo Damiano Fonseca . Cesena 1986 (Monasticon Italiae. Repertorio topo-bibliografico dei monasteri italiani, 3) pp. 50-52.
- Peter Lock: The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500 , New York 1995.
- Ekkehard Rotter: Apulia: Byzantine grotto churches, Norman cathedrals, Hohenstaufen forts, Lecceser Baroque , Ostfildern.
- Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis: The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece , Leeds 2008.
