Sept-Fons Monastery
| Sept-Fons Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms of Sept-Fons Abbey |
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| location | France region Auvergne Allier department |
| Lies in the diocese | Moulins |
| Coordinates: | 46 ° 32 '40 " N , 3 ° 42' 19" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
59 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1132 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 repopulated by Trappist 1845 |
| Mother monastery | Fontenay Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
| Congregation | (Trappists) |
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Daughter monasteries |
none in the Middle Ages |
The Sept-Fons Abbey (. French Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu Sept-Fons ; lat. Abbatia BMV de Sancto Loco ad Septem Fontes ) is a Trappist - abbey (= Cistercians of the Strict Observance) in the town of Diou in Allier the Auvergne region ( France ). It is located around 34 km east of Moulins in the direction of Paray-le-Monial on the Canal latéral à la Loire .
history
The monastery, which got its name from seven springs that supplied it with water, was founded in 1132 by Richard and Guillaume de Montbard of the Bourbon-Lancy family and was subordinated to Fontenay Abbey as a subsidiary . So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . In 1158 Pope Hadrian IV placed the monastery under his protection. The monastery remained small for a long time and had no more than 15 monks. In 1663 the monastery joined the reform movement of the Strict Observance under the abbot Eustache de Beaufort. The monastery was then expanded. In 1791 it ended in the French Revolution and fell into ruins. Two monks who died in the process were canonized under the pontificate of Pope John Paul II . The reform of Sept-Fons survived the revolution when the former monk Dom Eugène Huvelin (1742-1828) founded a new convent of strict observation in 1817 in the monastery Bellevaux in Franche-Comté, which continues to this day in the monastery Tamié . In 1845 the monastery was repopulated by Trappists from Darfeld Monastery . The monastery community founded the subsidiaries of the Notre-Dame de la Consolation monastery near Beijing in China and the Notre-Dame de Maristella monastery in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil, as well as the subsidiary Nový Dvůr monastery near Toužim in the Czech Republic . Sept-Fons Monastery was known for its Trappist beer .
buildings
Almost nothing has survived from the first buildings. The buildings that have been preserved, built by Dom Dorothée Jalloutz, date from the 18th century. The monastery extends on both sides of the monastery church with a classicist facade, which is towered over by a roof turret. The monastery wall from the 18th century is 3.3 km long and has four towers.
Known residents
- Jean-Hervé Nicolas OP (1910–2001), dogmatics professor
literature
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 34-36.