Le Celle
Coordinates: 43 ° 17 ′ 39.2 ″ N , 12 ° 0 ′ 3.1 ″ E
Le Celle Monastery is a Franciscan hermitage that dates back to the founding of St. Francis of Assisi in 1211. It is located near the city of Cortona in the Italian province of Arezzo .
history
Francis came to Cortona in 1211 on a preaching hike. When he was looking for a place of retreat for prayer, the young nobleman Guido Vagnottelli offered him the site of what is now Celle , which at the time was undeveloped and deserted. Francis had a first cella built , where Guido, won over to the Franciscan movement himself, took up religious life with some of the brothers. Francis visited the cella again in 1215 for the Easter celebration and for the last time in the year of his death in 1226 on the journey from Siena to Assisi .
From 1235 onwards, the Franciscan General Minister Elias , also from Cortona, had the original cella expanded by another five cells, an oratory and a refectory . The branch existed for about a hundred years and then was forgotten. The land became the property of the diocese of Cortona .
In 1537, Bishop Leonardo Bonafide handed the place over to the Franciscan Reform Order of the Capuchins founded in 1528 . They expanded the important site with a monastery church and 20 new cells along the mountainside and made it their novitiate house for the next five centuries . Today the monastery is known as Casa di preghiera ("House of Prayer") and is a spiritual center.
literature
- Teobaldo Ricci et al .: The “cells” of Cortona ; German translation by Leonhard Lehmann, April 1996
Web links
- Monastery website (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guido is venerated as a blessed; see biography in Santi e Beati (Italian).