Monastery of San Tommaso dei Borgognoni (Torcello)

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Cistercian Abbey of San Tommaso dei Borgognoni
location Italy
Veneto Region
Venice Province
Coordinates: 45 ° 29 ′ 45 "  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 0"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 29 ′ 45 "  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 0"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		550
Patronage St. Thomas
founding year 1206
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1797
Mother monastery Rosières monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Monastery of Sanctus Stephanus de Graecia
Monastery of Gergeri
Monastery of Sancta Maria Varangorum

San Tommaso dei Borgognoni Monastery is a former Cistercian monastery in Veneto , Italy . It was located on the island of Torcello in the Venetian lagoon, probably around 150 m north of today's jetty on the Canale Borgognoni and was relocated to the island area of Venice in 1669 .

history

The beginnings of the monastery go back to a church consecrated to the Apostle Thomas in Torcello, where a community of canons was formed around the year 1200. In 1206 it was incorporated as an abbey in the Cistercian order. The monks came from Rosières Abbey in what is now France , which was a subsidiary of Bellevaux Abbey from the filiation of the Morimond Primary Abbey . The monastery was named after the origin of the monks. As early as 1208, the first abbot Lorenzo sent a convent to settle the Sanctus Stephanus monastery near Constantinople , which had been part of the Latin Empire of Constantinople since the Fourth Crusade . Torcello settled two other monasteries on the island of Crete , which had become Venetian, namely the Gergeri monastery and - probably in 1271 - the Sancta Maria Varangorum monastery , which was given to him in 1230 . In 1497 Torcello Monastery joined the Lombard Province of the Italian Cistercian Congregation. Since the statics of the monastery buildings had suffered with the decay of Torcello, which was increasingly depopulated from the 14th century, the monks moved in 1669 to the former humiliate monastery of S. Maria dell'Orto ( Madonna dell'Orto ) on the northern edge of Venice, the church of which was begun around 1350. With the end of the Republic of Venice at the end of the 18th century (1797), the Cistercian settlement also ended.

Plant and buildings

A part of the sacristy of the monastery is still preserved in a private house; nearby excavations at the beginning of the 19th century rediscovered the foundations of a very old church, which could not be assigned to this day.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cistercensi d'Italia . Casamari, o.O. 1964, p. 104 f., Without ISBN.

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