Santa Maria di Roccamadore monastery

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Roccamadore Cistercian Abbey
location ItalyItaly Italy
region Sicily
metropolitan city Messina
Coordinates: 38 ° 8 '25 "  N , 15 ° 31' 24"  E Coordinates: 38 ° 8 '25 "  N , 15 ° 31' 24"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		506
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1193
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1861
Mother monastery Novara di Sicilia monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The Santa Maria di Roccamadore (Rocca-Amatoris) Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in Sicily , Italy . It was about 6 km from Messina in the metropolitan city of the same name , in the village of Tremestieri (derived from Tre Monasteri - three monasteries).

history

The Count of Paternò, Bartholomeus de Lucy, founded the monastery on the basis of a vow in 1193 (or 1197), which he left to the Cistercians and named after the church of Rocamadour in Quercy in France . The founding convention came from the monastery Novara di Sicilia , which Roccamadore the filiation of the Branch Clairvaux belonged. The privileges of the monastery were confirmed by Emperor Friedrich II in 1221. A small settlement soon developed around the monastery. The Cistercian settlements at the churches of Santo Spirito and San Vincenzo in Messina depended on him. In 1488 the monastery fell in Kommende . The monastery belonging to the Congregation of St. Bernard was badly damaged in the earthquake of 1783, so that the monks withdrew to the city in the College of San Nicolò dei Gentiluomini, which had been abandoned by the Jesuits , but was the only Cistercian monastery in Sicily to survive the dissolution of the monastery Time after the French Revolution and was only dissolved by the new Kingdom of Italy in 1861. However, some monks remained in the monastery, the buildings of which were completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1908.

Plant and buildings

Nothing remains of the complex with a large cross-shaped church with two side altars, which was sold after 1861 and rebuilt.

Abbots

  • Bernardo (until 1221)
  • Benedetto (1221 to 1248)
  • Enrico di Roccamadore (1248 to 1307)
  • Matteo (1307 to 1347)
  • N. (1347 to 1365)
  • Guglielmo (1365 to 1396)
  • Nicola de Pirecta (1396 to 1400)
  • Angelo (1400 to 1435)
  • B. da Compagno (1435 to 1466)
  • N. (1466 to 1488)
  • Commendation abbots:
  • Cardinal Giovanni Albano (1488 to 1506)
  • Andrea (1506)
  • Cardinal Pietro Isvaglio (1506 to 1510)
  • Carlo de Urrias, royal chaplain (1510)
  • Valeriano de Quiros (1517 to 1518)
  • Geronimo Bonomia from Palermo (1518 to 1541)
  • Lopez de Soria (until 1544)
  • Giovanni Matteo Papardo from Messina (1544 to 1569)
  • Oliviero Pignorio from Naples (1569 to 1583)
  • Nicola Severino from Syracuse (1584 to 1589)
  • Silvestro Maurolico from Messina (1589 to 1614)
  • Mario Cirino from Messina (1614 to?)
  • Gaspare Castiglia from Palermo (until 1619)
  • unknown
  • Cardinal Desiderio Scalia from Cremona (1634 to 1639)
  • Cardinal Carlo Medici (1640 to 1645)
  • Cardinal Aloisio Moncada, Duke of Montalto (until 1671)
  • Carlo Pio from Ferrara (1672 to 1686)
  • Vincenzo Muni, royal chaplain (1682)
  • Giuseppe Guion, Bishop from France
  • Giuseppe Tommasi

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Dalla fondazione di Citeaux (1098) alla metà del secolo decimoquarto. sn, sl 1964, pp. 85-86.

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