Upcoming St. Jacques-du-Haut-Pas (Paris)
The Coming St. Jacques-du-Haut-Pas in Paris (French Commanderie Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas ) was a branch of the spiritual knight and hospital order of San Giacomo di Altopascio .
history
The order was founded in the middle of the 12th century in Altopascio (French: Haut Pas ) near Lucca on the banks of the Arno to give spiritual and material support to pilgrims on the pilgrimage, to accommodate them, to dine and to maintain if necessary. The Paris branch in what was then the suburb of Faubourg Saint-Jacques (today Rue Saint-Jacques number 254, 5th Arrdt. ) Is said to have settled under Louis the Saint († 1270), according to other sources, in 1180 .
In order for the Coming lay on the Paris to Santiago de Compostela leading St. James . The hospice established by the friars here was the first of a series of similar pilgrimage hostels and hospitals on the long journey to Galicia .
When Pope Pius II abolished the order almost two hundred years later with a bull from 1459, the former hospital brothers continued to run the hospice and even renewed it around 1519. From 1554 it changed its purpose. From then on, wounded soldiers who were in the service of the king were cared for here.
In 1572, several religious institutions were relocated. The Queen Mother Catherine de Medici , who wanted to build a second residence, the later Hôtel de la Reine ( Hôtel de Soissons ), not far from the Tuileries Palace , laid claim to the area of the "Couvent des Filles Pénitentes" located to the north of the Louvre near the halls ( Convent of the Penitent Girls) and assigned them the convent of the former abbey of Saint-Magloire , secularized in 1564 and subordinated to the diocese of Paris , in rue Saint-Denis (today's number 82).
This in turn gave way to the left bank in the hospice of the Rue Saint Jacques , where only two brothers were still present.
Subsequently, the buildings housed the Saint-Magloire monastery , then a community of the Congregation of the Oratory , which opened the prestigious seminary of the oratorios (from around 1620). Finally, the deaf-mute institute (since 1794) took possession of it, which - after several renovations and partial new construction of the existing buildings - is still located here today under the name Institut National des Jeunes Sourds (State Institute of Young Pigeons).
literature
- Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire Historique des rues de Paris. Paris, 1963, Ed. de Minuit, ISBN 2-7073-0092-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hillairet