Tremembé Monastery

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The Tremembé monastery was a Brazilian monastery of French Trappists near Tremembé, Taubaté diocese , state of São Paulo from 1904 to 1936, and a Trappist convent in the city itself from 1908 to 1929.

history

The Trappist monastery

When the Chambarand Monastery was dissolved by the law separating church and state in 1903 and the monks poured back into the Sept-Fons mother monastery , Abbot Jean-Baptiste Chautard looked for a foundation in Brazil. In 1904, on the banks of the Chaveco in the Vale do Paraíba not far from Tremembé (100 kilometers northeast of São Paulo north of Taubaté ), the Maristella Monastery , Portuguese: Maristela ("Maria Meerstern"), was founded and through the active commitment of 40 monks and 500 unemployed Released in a short time to a considerable civilization achievement. Coffee and rice plantations were created and Trappist cheese was made. The monastery was electrified long before the surrounding towns. A railway line was diverted because of the monastery and a train station was built in Tremembé.

However, since there were initially local postulants but no local monks (due to a lack of permanent appointments) and the monastery staff could only be reinforced from Europe, on the other hand the bloodletting of the First World War had also affected the French monasteries, Abbot Chautard called the monks to Sept-Fonts in 1926 (and from there to Orval Abbey ). The task of the successful project was painful for many involved. The last monk left Maristella in 1936. One of them joined the Benedictines of Rio de Janeiro to stay in Brazil. The last monk from Maristella died in 1986.

Superiors and priors

  • Nivard Canavat (1904-1913)
  • Albéric Baudin (1913-1914)
  • Maur Guyot (1914-1927)
  • Alexis Ducrey (1927-1932)
  • Antoine Giguelay (1932-1936)

The Trappist Convent

The city of Tremembé was also the founding site of a Trappist convent in 1908 , which was officially inaugurated as Mosteiro Nossa Senhora do Sagrado Coração de Jesus ("Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus") with the permission of Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva . These were the nuns expelled from the monastery of the same name in Mâcon by the Third Republic , who had lived there in the Saint-Clément district since it was founded by the La Coudre monastery (in 1875) . The difficult living conditions (while at the same time adhering to the strict rules of the order ) prompted the nuns to move to Nova Friburgo , Archdiocese of Niterói , and from there to return to Europe, which began in 1925 and in 1929 with the move to the Feluy refuge set up by the Mont des Cats monastery in Seneffe , Belgium . In 1932 Feluy Monastery was moved to the newly settled Chambarand Monastery .

literature

  • Bernard-Marie van Caloen, I. Les moniales au Brésil (1908–1929). II. Feluy - Chambarand (1928-1935) . In: Liens cisterciens 26, 2014, pp. 3–14.
  • José Pereira da Silva, Trapistas no Brazil , Dissertation, São Paulo, 2014 (online, Portuguese).

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