Sancti Spiritus Monastery (Olmedo)

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The monastery Sancti Spiritus was 1128-1956 a monastery first unknown nuns, later the Cistercian and Trappist in Olmedo, Province of Valladolid in Spain .

history

Sancha Raimúndez founded a monastery in 1128 at the gates of Olmedo (20 km east of Medina del Campo ), which was settled by French Cistercian women in the late 13th century. A document from 1331 shows the monastery to be Cistercian. It is known that Joan of Castile and Teresa of Ávila (1574 on the way from Alba de Tormes to Valladolid ) stayed in the monastery. The abbesses are known from 1907. In 1950 the St. Bernard convent was incorporated into the Trappist Order (OCSO). In 1956 the sisters left the place and moved to the Alconada monastery . The monastery, built in the Mudéjar style , was converted into a wellness hotel ( Hotel Castilla Termal Balneario de Olmedo ) in 2005 . The street name Calle Pago de Sancti Spiritus as well as the preserved bell tower are reminiscent of the former monastery.

literature

  • Guía del Cister en Castilla y León . Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Valladolid 2010, pp. 261–265, illustrated (online).
  • Antonio García Flores: Arquitectura de la Orden del Císter en la provincia de Valladolid, 1147–1515 . Valladolid 2010 (Dissertation Barcelona 2002), pp. 42, 421-426
  • Angela Franco Mata: “Caractères islamiques et mudéjars dans l'architecture des monastères cisterciens de femmes en Castille et León”. In: Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.): Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui. Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001, pp. 83-98 (especially 84).
  • Monjes y monasterios. The Cister en el medievo de Castilla y León . Monasterio de Santa Maria de Huerta, Soria. Junta de Castilla y León, Valladolid 1998 (exhibition catalog).
  • Fr. Ignotus: “Gloriosa efemérides en Sancti Spiritus de Olmedo.” In: Cistercium 3, 1951, pp. 110–113.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 830.

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Coordinates: 41 ° 17 ′ 20.1 "  N , 4 ° 40 ′ 47.8"  W.