Sestri Ponente Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Sestri Ponente | |
|---|---|
| location |
 ItalyRegion Liguria Metropolitan city of Genoa |
| Coordinates: | 44 ° 25 '2 " N , 8 ° 51' 43" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
50 |
| Patronage | St. Andrew (Apostle) |
| founding year | before 1000 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | 1131 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1569 |
| Year of repopulation |
1569 by Dominicans |
| Year of re-dissolution | 1797 |
| Mother monastery | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Sestri Ponente Monastery (Sant'Andrea di Sestri, Sanctus Andreas de Sexto) is a former Cistercian abbey in Liguria , Italy . It was located in Sestri Ponente around 9 km west of Genoa in the metropolitan city of the same name , originally on a small island called Gabbaia, but was relocated to the higher place Colombara after just one year.
history
The monastery consecrated to the Apostle Andreas was founded as a Benedictine monastery before the year 1000 , but was later abandoned by this order. Bernhard von Clairvaux , who was in Genoa because of the schism of the antipope Anaklet II , but refused to assume the archbishopric there, is said to have promised to send a Cistercian convent. The Cîteaux monastery then acquired the Sant'Andrea monastery and in 1131 sent a founding convention under the first abbot Peter. The monastery built a sanctuary 3 km away on Mount Contessa for the hermit Albert , who came from him and was canonized under Pope Innocent IV . In 1254 the abbey took over the daughter monastery of Rivalta di Torino . 1478 was by Pope Sixtus IV. In Sestri Ponente Coming set that led to the decline of the abbey. In 1569 Pope Pius V gave the monastery to the Dominicans from Genoa, who stayed until 1797. After that, the monastery became a bishopric of Genoa. An attempt to establish a Benedictine settlement in 1938 failed in 1962. The Cistercians moved into the church of San Bernardo alla Foce in Genoa in 1628, where they stayed until 1797.
Plant and buildings
The restored church retains the shapes of the 14th century.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. o. O. (Casamari), 1964, pp. 13-14, without ISBN