Mary Magdalene Monastery (Akkon)
| Cistercian convent of St. Maria Magdalena | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Israel
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| Coordinates: | 32 ° 55 '35 .4 " N , 35 ° 4' 21.6" E |
| Patronage | Saint Mary Magdalene |
| founding year | before 1222 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1291 |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Maria Magdalenen Monastery (Tripoli) , Maria Magdalenen Monastery (Nicosia) |
The Maria Magdalenen Monastery was a Cistercian monastery in Acre in what is now the State of Israel .
history
The first mention of the Maria Magdalenen Monastery in Acre comes from the year 1222, when the abbess Maria and her convent agreed to build their house in Nicosia as their own abbey with an abbess. It was built at the request of the Archbishop of Nicosia, Eustorge de Montaigu, and the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Balamand . The first abbess of the new convent in Nicosia was to be elected in Acre; later the new convent itself was entitled to elect the abbesses. The Maria Magdalenen Monastery was under the supervision of the Bishop of Acre.
In 1223 Pope Honorius III declared an agreement between the monastery and the monastery of St. Mary of Percheio in Constantinople, in which the Marian monastery had submitted to the convent in Acre, null and void. Instead, the decision of the abbot of Citeaux was confirmed, according to which both monasteries were placed under Citeaux. In 1238 the Abbot of Balamand demanded the supervision of a daughter monastery of Acre in Tripoli . However, the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order decided in 1239 to place Acre and its daughter monasteries in Nicosia and Tripoli directly under Citeaux. The Maria Magdalenen monastery perished with the fall of Akkon in 1291.
Buildings and plant
Based on a document dated December 25, 1225, in which the abbess rented several houses and a space south of the monastery church of St. Maria Magdalena, the location of the monastery in the city can be determined. It was located in the Montmusard district between two parallel streets, one of which led to the Church of St. Giles, immediately north of the inner city wall. See the map in Pringle, page 16. Nothing is known about the monastery buildings themselves.
literature
- Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis: The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece. Leeds 2008, p. 91, (Leeds, University of Leeds, Ph. D. Thesis, 2008).
- Denys Pringle : The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. A corpus. Volume 4: The Cities of Acre and Tire. With Addenda and Corrigenda to Volumes I - III. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-85148-0 , pp. 147 f.