Sancta Maria Varangorum Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Sancta Maria Varangorum | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Greece
|
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1230 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
probably before 1340 |
| Mother monastery | San Tommaso dei Borgognoni monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
Sancta Maria Varangorum Monastery is a former Cistercian monastery in Greece . It was on the island of Crete , its exact location is not known.
history
The monastery was founded after the cession of Crete to Venice in the wake of the Fourth Crusade as a subsidiary of the monastery of San Tommaso dei Borgognoni (Torcello) near Venice , which was itself a subsidiary of Rosières monastery from the filiation of the primary abbey of Morimond . The name indicates relationships with the Varangian Guard . In June 1230 it was from the Doge Jacopo Tiepolo left to the Cistercian monastery in Torcello. In 1273 this monastery asked the General Chapter for permission to send monks there. It is not known exactly when the monastery ended (see Zaraka Monastery ), but it seems to have ceased to exist as early as 1340.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia , undated (Casamari), undated (1964), p. 104 (article by S. Tommaso di Torcello)
- Beata Kitsiki Panagopoulos: Cistercian and mendicant monasteries in medieval Greece , Chicago 1979, ISBN 0-226-64544-4 , p. 63.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection , Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 107.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beata Kitsiki Panagopoulos: Cistercian and mendicant monasteries in medieval Greece , Chicago 1979, ISBN 0-226-64544-4 , p. 63.