Mary Magdalene Monastery (Nicosia)
| Cistercian convent of St. Maria Magdalena | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Cyprus , Nicosia
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| Patronage | Saint Mary Magdalene |
| founding year | before 1222 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
16th Century |
| Mother monastery | Mary Magdalene Monastery (Akkon) |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Maria Magdalenen Monastery was a monastery of the Cistercian Sisters in Nicosia on Cyprus .
history
Before 1222 the Cistercian monastery of Akkon was given a house in Nicosia by Balian of Sidon. At the request of the Archbishop of Nicosia, Eustorge de Montaigu, and the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Balamand , a daughter monastery was built there in 1222. 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 candidates had to come from the convent in Nicosia and were not allowed to be elected from the mother monastery in Acre. The General Chapter of the Cistercian Order decided in 1239 to subordinate Acre and its daughter monasteries in Nicosia and Tripoli directly to the Cîteaux monastery . The Maria Magdalenen monastery perished in the 16th century.
Buildings and plant
Information on the location and construction could not be determined.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The statement made by Hinnebusch, p. 193, that the monastery existed from 1192 to 1489 cannot be confirmed by the other literature used here.
literature
- Nicholas Coureas: The Latin Church in Cyprus 1195-1312, Aldershot 1997 , p. 193.
- John Frederick Hinnebusch: The Historia Occidentalis of Jacques de Vitry , Friborg 1972, p. 268.
- Denys Pringle: The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Volume 4: The Cities of Acre and Tire , Cambridge University Press 2009, pp. 147f.