Santo Spirito di Zannone Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Santo Spirito di Zannone | |
|---|---|
| location |
 ItalyRegion of Latium Province of Latina |
| Coordinates: | 40 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
638 |
| founding year | 1213 |
| Cistercian since | 1246 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1295 ? |
| Mother monastery | Fossanova Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The convent of Santo Spirito di Zannone was a Cistercian abbey in the region Lazio in Italy . It was located on the island of Zannone or Senon, one of the smaller of the Pontine Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Terracina in what is now the province of Latina .
history
The hermits who settled on the island of Zannone in the seventh century left the island after raids by the Saracens . In the following years the island remained uninhabited until in 1213 a group of Benedictine monks from the Sant'Angelo monastery in Gaeta went to Zannone to resume monastic life there. They followed the rule of Joachim von Fiore . In 1246 the monastery consecrated to the Holy Spirit joined the Cistercian order as the daughter of Fossanova Monastery . Because of the unsafe situation of Zannone and threatened by raids from the sea, the abbot asked to be allowed to move the monastery to the mainland as early as 1291 and the general chapter decreed that the abbots of Fossanova and Casamari monastery should visit the intended site in the north-west of Gaeta. The relocation of the monastery took place in 1295 at the latest. The later fate of the abbey is unknown. Possibly she fell in the coming .
Plant and buildings
Only ruins are left on the now uninhabited island of Zannone.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini, Breve prospetto delle abazie cistercensi d'Italia , o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 147–148.
- Arianna Viola, Il monastero di Santo Spirito di Zannone , in: Rivista cistercense, XX, 2003, pp. 67-84.