Stapehill Monastery

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Stapehill Monastery.

Stapehill Convent was a Trappist convent in Dorset, England from 1802 to 1991.

history

The 1800 under the leadership of de Augustin Lestrange from the Russian exile in Orsha returning Trappist and Trappist monastery of Carthusian Valsainte in Switzerland parted in Hamburg-Hamm . One group moved on to Darfeld-Rosenthal Abbey , a second to La Valsainte, and a third crossed to England in March 1801, lived in Hammersmith, and traveled to Dorset in October 1802 . On 13 November 1802, the Superior took Augustin de Chabannes with three sisters, a junior nun and five novices solemnly in the October 21 (officially by Jean-Baptiste Desnoyers founded) Monastery Sainte Croix Notre Dame de la Trappe (English: Holy Cross Abbey ) in Stapehill, east of Wimborne Minster , 25 km from Lulworth Trappist monastery (of which Desnoyers was prior).

During the reign of the hundred days in 1815 Lestrange sought refuge in the monastery. Because of the above-average mortality in the monastery due to the severity of the Lestrange reform, Oberin Chabannes, together with the local bishop, obtained an order from the Pope in 1824 that removed the monastery from Lestrange's supervision and instead placed it under the authority of the local bishop (confirmed in 1825 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ) . This official resignation from the Trappist order was reversed in 1915.

Stapehill Abbey founded Glencairn Abbey ( St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn , near Lismore in Ireland) in 1932 . Stapehill existed on site until 1991. Then the nuns left the place and moved into the new Whitland Abbey ( Holy Cross Abbey in Pembrokeshire ), not far from the ruins of Whitland Abbey (which is in Carmarthenshire ).

Prioresses and abbesses

Prioresses

  • Augustin de Chabannes (1801–1844)
  • Mary Joseph Troy (1844-1847)
  • Alysia O'Brien (1847-1853)
  • Josephine Campion (1853–1871)
  • Cecilia Keats (1871-1882)
  • Margaret Dillon (1882-1885)
  • Agnes Rolls (1885-1888)
  • Margaet Dillon (1888-1891)
  • Alberic Lloyd-Anstrutter (1891-1894)
  • Agnes Rolls (1894-1900)
  • Malachy Ryan (1900-1903)
  • Scholastica Shean (1903-1913)
  • Maura Perry (1913-1927)

Abbesses

  • Maura Perry (1927–1935, founding abbess of Glencairn)
  • Paula Turner (1935-1941)
  • Bernard Payne (1941-1956)
  • Laurence Pickthorn (1956-1974)
  • Bede Deall (1974–1980)
  • Catherine Priest (1980-1987)
  • Columba Guare, Superior ad nutum ("deselected") (1987–1989)
  • Catherine Priest, Sup. Ad nutum (1989–1995)

literature

  • L. Nolle, The Cistercian Convent Stapehill (Holy Cross) in Dorset, in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 55, 1937, pp. 321–329.
  • 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.
  • A monastic odyssey. A refugee Cistercian community in search of a home. Scenes depicting the history of the community as it wandered over Europa, driven out of one country into another during three years proceeding the foundation made at Holy Cross Abbey , 1802, Paris, Beauchesne, 1992.
  • Wilhelm Knoll, 30 years of Trappist settlement in Darfeld 1795–1825. A contribution to the church history in the Coesfeld district , Bernardus-Verlag, Mainz 2012.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965), Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 , Paris, Cerf, 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (passim).
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012 (pages 925, 960 and 995).

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