St. Samuel Monastery (Akkon)

St. Samuel was a Premonstratensian settlement in Acre in what is now Israel at the time of the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

history

In 1185 Baldwin V confirmed to the Premonstratensian Abbey of St. Samuel , which was located north of Jerusalem, income from the market in Acre, a house there and the possession of a tower in the city wall near the religious house. After the Abbey of St. Samuel fell into the hands of Saladin in 1187, the convent fled to the possessions within Acon, where the convent was established in a new Samuelskloster.

The Convention must have been of some importance. Premonstratensians performed the services in the royal chapel of Accons Castle and the abbots of St. Samuel were assigned several times by the popes with tasks in the Holy Land. A visit to the monastery church of St. Samuel resulted in a year and 40 day indulgence for pilgrims . The monastery probably perished with the fall of Acon in 1291. Like the representatives of other orders, the members of the convention may have found refuge in the nearest religious establishment in Cyprus, in this case Bellapais Abbey .

Construction and plant

St. Samuel was located immediately west of Accons Castle. The buildings of the monastery can no longer be reconstructed because of the destruction after the city was conquered.

literature

• Denys Pringle: The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Volume 4: The Cities of Acre and Tire , Cambridge University Press 2009, p. 16 u. 159f.

Coordinates: 32 ° 55 '24.9 "  N , 35 ° 4' 16.3"  E