Santo Spirito d'Ocre Monastery
| Santo Spirito d'Ocre Monastery | |
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| location |
 Italyregion of Abruzzo province of L'Aquila |
| Coordinates: | 42 ° 17 '3.2 " N , 13 ° 29' 41.6" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
646 |
| founding year | 1222 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1692 |
| Mother monastery | Casanova Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
| Congregation | Italian Cistercian Congregation (from 1632) |
Santo Spirito d'Ocre Monastery was a Cistercian monastery in Abruzzo , Italy .
location
The former monastery is located 15 km southeast of L'Aquila in the municipality of Ocre , in the province of L'Aquila .
history
In 1222, Count Bernhard von Ocre and his mother Roalda donated land to the hermit Placido di Roio, which was 850 m above sea level and was called Pretola, for a monastery that was named after the Holy Spirit. In 1226 the diocesan bishop approved the establishment of an abbey. Placido, who is buried in the monastery and venerated there, made it subject to the Casanova monastery (Abruzzo) shortly before his death in 1248 . Thus the monastery belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The monastery soon fell into the future (probably as early as 1310) , which led to the number of monks being reduced to the bare minimum. In 1632 the monastery joined the newly founded Roman province of the Italian Cistercian Congregation . 1692 it was by Pope Innocent XII. dissolved with other small monasteries.
Plant and buildings
The altitude below the Ocre Castle, which is unusual for a Cistercian monastery, is likely due to the fact that the monastery only joined the order years after it was founded. The single-nave, originally vaulted church without facade from pre-Cistercian times is 30 m long, the entrance is on the left. The once ruinous monastery buildings were restored after 1970 and turned into an accommodation facility.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini, Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia , oO. (Casamari), 1964, pp. 151–152, without ISBN.
