Mary Magdalene Monastery (Tripoli)

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Cistercian convent of St. Maria Magdalena
location LebanonLebanon Lebanon
Patronage Saint Mary Magdalene
founding year before 1238
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1289
Mother monastery Mary Magdalene Monastery (Akkon)
Primary Abbey Citeaux monastery

The Maria Magdalenen Monastery was a Cistercian monastery in Tripoli in what is now the state of Lebanon . It existed in the Crusader- built county of Tripoli .

history

The Cistercian monastery in Tripoli was a subsidiary of the Maria Magdalene monastery in Acre . In 1238, the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Balamand claimed the supervision of the nunnery. However, the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order decided in 1239 to subordinate Tripoli, like the mother monastery in Acre, directly to the Citeaux Primary Abbey . The Maria Magdalenen Monastery is believed to have perished with the fall of Tripoli in 1289.

As early as 1188, Cistercian women had fled Tripoli from the threat of the Saracens. Bishop Bartholomew of Agrigento occupied the priory of St. Angel and Michael in Prizzi on Sicily with them .

Buildings and plant

Information about the location and construction of the monastery could not be determined.

literature

  • Janet Burton, Julie Kerr: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages. Boydell, Woodbridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-84383-667-4 , p. 51.
  • John Frederick Hinnebusch: The Historia Occidentalis of Jacques de Vitry. A Critical Edition (= Spicilegium Friburgense. 17, ISSN  0561-6158 ). University Press Friborg, Friborg 1972, p. 268.
  • 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.
  • Lynn Townsend White : Latin Monasticism in Norman Sicily (= The Mediaeval Academy of America. Publication. 31, ISSN  0076-583X = Monographs of the Mediaeval Academy of America. 13). The Mediaeval Academy of America, Cambridge MA 1938, pp. 166, 176-177.