Congregation of Anagni
The Congregation of Anagni is a congregation of the Cistercian Order (OCist). It includes the nunneries of Anagni Monastery ( Lazio ), Morgano Monastery ( Veneto ), Donzella Monastery ( Emilia-Romagna ), Borgo Podgora Monastery (Lazio) and the Casamari Nunnery (Lazio) as well as the Claraval Monastery in Brazil and the Hoima Monastery in Uganda.
history
The mystic Claudia De Angelis (1675–1715), born in Anagni , founded an educational institute for poor girls ( Scuola Pia della Carità) run by monastic educators there in 1709 with the support of her confessor and later biographer Giovanni Marangoni (1673–1753) and the Bishop of Anagni per le povere zitelle ), Pope Clement XI. 1713 took under his protection. The desired affiliation to the Third Order of the Dominicans did not succeed, but in 1728, with the help of Cardinal Giacchino Besozzi (1679–1759), the affiliation as Cistercian oblates , and in 1748 Pope Benedict XIV granted the institute the title and privileges of a monastery . The Monastero della Carità was so highly regarded that Giuseppe Garibaldi placed it under the protection of the Republican Army in 1849. In 1949 the institute was established by Bishop Giovanni Battista Piasentini (1899-1987) as a congregation under episcopal law with the right to solemn profession and filiation . From 1949 to 2010 there were a total of twelve start-ups (including overseas), but not all of them lasted. The Anagni Congregation has been a full member of the Cistercian Order since 1968 and an institution under papal law since 1987. The ideal of the congregation is still the connection between educational institute and monastery, between charity and educational challenge.
Superior General
- Chiara Fattorini
- Assunta Pistacchi
- Teresa Piergiovanni
- Antonietta Gaeta
- Gabriella Malandruccolo
- Carmela Rostirolla
Foundations
Italy
- 1949: Morgano
- 1951: Cordignano (former)
- 1952: Donzella di Porto Tolle
- 1958: Monte Sant'Angelo (formerly)
- 1964: Torre Cajetani (formerly)
- 1964: Bari (former)
- 1976: Borgo Podgora, Latina (Latium)
- 1980: Casamari, Veroli
- 2000: Caltanissetta (former)
- 2010: Vallepietra
Outside Italy
- 1990: Claraval, Minas Gerais , Diocese of Guaxupé ( Brazil )
- 1998: Hoima ( Uganda )
literature
- Giovanni Marangoni, Vita della serva di Dio suor Claudia De Angelis , ed. by Giampiero Raspa, Anagni, Istituto di storia e di arte del Lazio meridionale, 1995 (first Rome 1805).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.cistercensi.info Website of the Certosa di Firenze
- ↑ http://lnx.ocist.org/pdf/elenchus13.pdf