Louise de Ballon

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Louise Perrucard de Ballon (born June 5, 1591 in Vanchy, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine , † December 14, 1668 in Seyssel ) was a French mystic , Cistercian , religious reformer and monastery founder .

life and work

Louise-Blanche-Thérèse Perrucard de Ballon came from a noble Savoy family who had several abbots of the Chézery monastery on her father's side and who were related on her mother's side to Francis de Sales , and also to Bernhard von Menthon . The family owned castles in Ballon ( Lancrans ) and Vanchy (both today destroyed by landslide) in the Pays de Gex above the Valserine River . From the age of seven, Louise grew up in the Cistercian abbey of Sainte-Catherine-du-Mont-de-Semnoz near Annecyon and became a nun on March 4, 1607. Over time, she increasingly pushed for stricter observance of the apparently laxly handled rule of the order, but could not prevail and therefore founded the first monastery of the Reformed Saint Bernard Sisters of the Divine in Rumilly in 1620 (officially 1622) together with like-minded people (and supported by Francis de Sales) Providence, of which she was elected Superior. From the Cistercian Abbey of Les Ayes near Grenoble , Louise de Borel de Ponsonas (also: Louise-Cécile de Ponçonas, 1602–1657) joined with some sisters, but then (because of the problematic rivalry with Louise de Ballon) pursued her own goals from 1631. By 1665, the restless activity of the superior led to around 30 more foundations of the congregation in the Alpine region, in Provence and in Switzerland . The French monasteries were destroyed by the French Revolution at the latest . The only thing left is the Swiss monastery Collombey in Collombey-Muraz . His daughter Géronde changed in 2008 to the Cistercian Sisters of the Strict Observance ( Trappist Sisters ).

Louise de Ballon was a great mystic whose writings (ordered by the confessors) were edited by the oratorian Jean Grossi. The key word in their thinking is "simplicity" ( simplicité ). What is important to her is not brilliant theology, but tasting the presence of God.

Convents of the Reformed St. Bernard Sisters of Divine Providence

Works

  • Les Œuvres de piété de la vénérable Mère Louise Blanche Thérèse de Ballon, fondatrice et première supérieure des religieuses Bernardines Réformées de Savoie et de France , ed. by Jean Grossi. Paris, Nicolas Couterot, 1700.
    • Ecrits spirituels . Sierre, 1979 (reprint of Œuvres de piété with an introduction by Edmond Mikkers).

literature

  • Bernardines de la Divine Providence, La Règle et les constitutions des religieuses de la Congrégation S. Bernard, ordre de Cisteaux, dressée premièrement en Savoye et en Dauphiné par bulle expresse de NSP Urbain VIII, de l'an 1628 . Grenoble, P. Verdier, 1631.
  • Jean Grossi, Vie de la vénérable Mère Louise Blanche Thérèse de Ballon, fondatrice et première supérieure de la Congrégation des Bernardines Réformées, en Savoie et en France . Annecy, Humbert Fontaine, 1695.
  • Myriam de G. (= Marthe Jaccoud, * 1897 in Rumilly; † 1961 ibid), Louyse de Ballon. Parente de saint Bernard de Menthon et de saint François de Sales: "Dérobée et retrouvée" . Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1933 (preface by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, 1877–1964), 560 pages.
  • Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.), Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Grâne, Créaphis éditions, 2001 (files from a 1998 colloquium).
  • Charles Dumont, “La simplicité comme principe de réforme chez la Mère Louise de Ballon”, in: Collectanea Cisterciensia 73, 1979.
  • Alain Guerrier, "Les Bernardines de Saint-Bernard et / ou de la divine Providence", in: Guide pour l'histoire des ordres et congrégations religieuses en France (1500–1960) , ed. by Daniel-Odon Hurel. Turnhout, Brepols, 2001.
  • François Huot, "Bernardines de Collombey", in: Helvetia Sacra III / 3-2, Bern 1982, pp. 996-1050.
  • Spiritualité cistercienne. Histoire et doctrine . Paris, Beauchesne, 1998 (excerpts from the Dictionnaire de spiritualité in 45 volumes, 1932–1945) sv

Manual information

  • Pierre Larousse: Grand dictionnaire universel du 19e siècle , sv
  • Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 247.

Web links

Commons : Louise de Ballon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://clap.jac.free.fr/livre/bernardines.html
  2. ↑ https://www.departement06.fr/documents/Import/decouvrir-les-am/rr176-couvent.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.bernardines-belley.fr/Accueil.html
  4. ↑ Étienne Antoine Granget, Histoire de diocèse d'Avignon et des anciens diocèses dont il est formé, Volume 2, 1862, p. 238.
  5. ^ Gabriel Loridon, Quelques notes sur les Bernardines de la V. mère de Ballon et sur leur monastère de Chambéry, 1931.
  6. ↑ Joseph Garin, En Savoie. Un couvent de femmes sous l'Ancien Régime. Les Bernardines de Conflans. Albertville, Bertrand, 1932.
  7. ↑ http://www.actuacity.com/couvent-de-bernardines_m195155/
  8. ↑ http://www.museeciotaden.org/Pages%20L%E9gend/Congregations.htm
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com
  10. ↑ https://www.nice.fr/uploads/media/default/0001/01/des-couvents-nicois.pdf
  11. ↑ http://www.asphor.org/le-patrimoine/les-batiments/le-couvent-des-bernardines-1-165.htm http://www.orgelet.com/ville/municipalite/discours/tricentenaire- du-couvent-des-bernardines-1-156.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.actuacity.com/couvent-de-bernardines_m41648/
  13. ↑ http://data.bnf.fr/14531126/monastere_des_bernardines_de_la_divine_providence_rumilly__haute-savoie/
  14. ↑ Jean Prieur, Le couvent des Bernardines de Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne aujourd'hui collège Saint-Joseph, 2007, pp. 111–122.
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ot-pays-de-seyssel.fr
  16. ^ H. Vienne, Promenades dans Toulon ancien et modern. Esquisses historiques. Toulon, Laurent, 1841, p. 93.
  17. ↑ Ancienne Chronique de Vienne, ou analyze d'un grand nombre de pièces authentiques pouvant servir à la rédaction de l'histoire de cette ancienne cité. 1845, p. 122.
  18. ↑ http://www.psbenlyonnais.fr/chateau-de-la-murette/
personal data
SURNAME Ballon, Louise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballon, Louise Perrucard de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mystic, Cistercian, religious reformer and monastery founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Vanchy, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1668
Place of death Seyssel (Ain)