Santa Maria di Spanò Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Spanò | |
|---|---|
| location |
 ItalyRegion of Sicily Metropolitan City of Catania |
| Coordinates: | 37 ° 43 '25 " N , 14 ° 44' 8" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
668 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1263 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
after 1425 ? |
| Mother monastery | Novara di Sicilia monastery ? |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
Santa Maria di Spanò Monastery was a Cistercian abbey in Sicily , Italy . It lay on a limestone spur above the Simeto River between Bronte and Randazzo in what is now the metropolitan city of Catania , west of Mount Etna .
history
The monastery was probably donated by Nicola di Troina in 1263. The founding convention may have come from the Novara di Sicilia monastery , so that the monastery belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Whether the monastery was ever an independent abbey is disputed with regard to Statute 31 of the General Chapter of the Order in 1279. According to other sources, it was united with the Novara mother monastery in 1310. It was mentioned in a document from Alfonso of Aragon in 1425. There is no documentary evidence for the later period.
Plant and buildings
The monastery complex at the top comprises a rectangular church with a Gothic portal with four archivolts and a small rose window in the facade as well as a presbytery with three apses.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Dalla fondazione di Citeaux (1098) alla metà del secolo decimoquarto. sn, sl 1964, p. 167.
- Camillo Filangeri: La chiesa cistercense di Santa Maria della Stella a Spanò (Randazzo) from documenti scritti e documenti di pietra. In: Archivio Storico Messinese. 69, 1995, ISSN 0392-0240 , pp. 13-56, (with numerous illustrations and plans; ASM 69 online ).
- Aldo Sparti: De fundatione, dotatione et dedicatione ecclesie Sancte Marie de Spanò. In: Archivio Storico Messinese. 69, 1995, pp. 57-72, (publishes the Charter of 1263 and the transfer to Novara in 1310; ASM 69 online ).