Tenshien Monastery
Tenshien Monastery ( Japanese 天使 の 聖母 ト ラ ピ ス チ ヌ 修道院 , Tenshi no Seibo Torapisuchinu [= Trappistine] Shūdōin , German "Trappist Monastery of the Holy Mother of Angels", short: 天使 園 , Tenshien , " Angel Garden") has been a Japanese monastery since 1898 Trappist women in Kamiyunokawa, Hakodate , Hokkaidō , Sapporo diocese .
history
Notre-Dame des Anges / Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Tenshien was founded as a priory in 1898 by the French Trappist women of Ubexy Monastery and elevated to an abbey in 1928 . In the beginning it was sponsored by Bricquebec Monastery (until 1972) and its abbot Vital Lehodey . The monastery, which elected the first Japanese abbess in 1942, was visited by members of the imperial family in 1953 . Three other foundings in Japan and South Korea came from Tenshien.
Prioresses and abbesses
- Gertrude Dequidt (1898–1900)
- Scholastique Jeanvoine (1900–1929, first abbess)
- Gertrude Abt (1930, deceased)
- Madeleine Bonhomme (1930-1942)
- Caecilia Hirata (1942–1951)
- Michael Lozach '(1951–1972)
- Agatha Tsunematsu (1972–1975)
- Spes Ano (1975-2000)
- Cecilia Aoki (2000–)
Foundations
- 1935: Notre-Dame de Lourdes (Seiboen) monastery in Yawata, Ōita prefecture , Kyūshū , 1948 moved to Jūrenji, near Kurume , Fukuoka prefecture , 1966 to Nishinomiya .
- 1953: Imari Monastery by leaving the Trappist Monastery of Sainte Famille / Holy Family in Shindenbaru, near Chikujō , Fukuoka Prefecture, moved to Imari in 1966 .
- 1987: Sujong Trappist Monastery ( South Korea ).
Web links
- Monastery Tenshien on the site of the Trappists (English)
- Overview of the Japanese Trappist and Trappist convents (French)
- Tenshien Monastery in the family tree of the Trappist monasteries
See also
Coordinates: 41 ° 47 ′ 16.3 " N , 140 ° 49 ′ 21" E