Sembrancher Monastery

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Sembrancher Monastery was a Trappist monastery in Sembrancher , Switzerland , from 1796 to 1798 , and it was historically the first monastery to be founded for Trappist women .

history

Augustin de Lestrange , who led some of the monks of the monastery of La Trappe, which was dissolved by the French Revolution , to re-found the monastery La Valsainte in Switzerland in the spring of 1791 , founded in February for the by the Trappist Gérard Boulangier (1747-1795) September 1791, after Rüttenen- Widlisbach (1791 to 1793) and Saint-Pierre-de-Clages (1793 to 1796), Trappists (also from La Trappe) led the Sembrancher monastery near Martigny and placed it under Prior Urbain Guillet .

The task of this group was, among other things, the preparation of buildings for a sister monastery, because La Valsainte increasingly attracted women willing to monastery, whose desire to settle Lestrange could not ignore. On September 14, 1796, a few Trappist women moved into the monastery “La Sainte Volonté de Dieu” (The Holy Will of God) under Matron Marie Laigniez, but a year later there were already sixty, including Louise-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Condé .

Sembrancher Monastery only existed until February 1798, because in view of the advancing French Revolution, Lestrange decided to establish a new one in Orsha in Belarus , and when, after a long wandering, some of the religious were able to return in 1802 and the monks lived in La Valsainte, the nuns left as far as they did not stayed in the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery founded in 1800 , to the Riedera monastery and from there back to France in 1816, where and from where they founded numerous monasteries in the 19th century. Sembrancher, who lived on in Darfeld and Riedera, was the original cell of all former and present Trappist convents in France and around the world.

literature

  • Immo Eberl , The Cistercians. History of a European Order , Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007.
  • Josiane Ferrari-Clément, Fous de Dieu. Récit d'une odyssée trappiste 1793–1815 , Paris, Cerf, 1998.
  • Marie de la Trinité Kervingant, Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines , Paris, Beauchesne, 1989.
  • Leopold Janauschek , Originum Cisterciensium. Tomus I , Vienna, Alfred Hoelder, 1877, S. LXXIV.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965), Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 , Paris, Cerf, 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (passim).