Sanctus Stephanus de Graecia Monastery

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Cistercian Abbey of Sanctus Stephanus de Graecia
location Turkey
Istanbul (Province)
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		556
Patronage St. Stephen
founding year 1208
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1261
Mother monastery Monastery of San Tommaso dei Borgognoni (Torcello)
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The Monastery of Sanctus Stephanus de Graecia (San Stefano) is a former Cistercian abbey near Istanbul in what is now Turkey . Its location is given as 5 km or tria milliaria from the city.

history

The monastery was after primarily by the Venetian Republic supported the conquest of Constantinople Opel in the Fourth Crusade to the establishment of the Latin Empire led in 1204, of one of Abbot Lorenzo of just two years earlier than Abbey built Cistercian monastery Kloster San Tommaso dei Borgognoni ( Torcello) and was part of the filiation of the Morimond Primary Abbey . It is believed to have existed until the end of the Latin Empire in 1261.

Plant and buildings

Nothing is known about the monastery complex.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cistercensi d'Italia , o.O. (Casamari), 1964, p. 104, without ISBN (article S. Tommaso di Torcello)
  • Beata Kitsiki Panagopoulos: Cistercian and Mendicant Monasteries in Medieval Greece , Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1979, p. 7, ISBN 0-226-64544-4
  • Leopold Janauschek: Originum Cisterciensium tom. I, Vienna 1877, note DLVI.
  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe , map collection, Berlin 2000: Lukas Verlag, sheet 87, ISBN 3-931836-44-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bedini (see literature), p. 104; Janauschek, Originum Cisterciensium, note DLVI