Santo Spirito della Valle monastery

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Cistercian Abbey of Santo Spirito della Valle
location ItalyItaly Italy
Region Apulia
Province Taranto  ?
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		572
founding year 1215
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1232
Mother monastery Fossanova Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Santo Spirito della Valle Monastery was a short-lived Cistercian abbey in Puglia , Italy . It was in the diocese of Taranto . The exact location is not known.

history

It was founded by a convent sent by the Ferraria monastery under Archbishop Nikolaus von Taranto in 1215. The monastery thus belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux monastery primary abbey . In 1232 the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order approved the conversion of the monastery into a grangie . The monks moved to the monastery of Santa Maria Incoronata near Foggia . The history of the monastery ended after 17 years.

Plant and buildings

There are no remains of the monastery.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. oO. (Casamari), 1964, p. 112, without ISBN

Web links

Certosa di Firenze website about the monastery