Bernard Maréchal
Bernard Maréchal , maiden name Paul , (born May 28, 1840 in Allainville , † September 1, 1924 in Versailles ) was a French religious and the founder of the Cistercian Abbey of Pont-Colbert .
Life
Maréchal entered the religious community of the Eucharist in 1867 and became a priest in 1871. In 1888 he left the congregation, first entered the service of the diocese of Versailles and in 1891 as Père Bernard in the abbey of Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide . In the same year he bought the Pont-Colbert homestead in Porchefontaine near Versailles with his own fortune and founded a monastery there in 1892, which was elevated to an abbey in 1900. Expelled from there by the anti-religious legislation of the French government (association law of June 1, 1901), the monks gathered in the Onsenoort castle in the Netherlands , which later became the Mariënkroon Cistercian abbeyoriginated. In 1921 Abbot Maréchal, to whom a court had confirmed his property rights in 1905, was able to return to Pont-Colbert with some of his monks, but died three years later. His remains were transferred to Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa after the dissolution of Pont-Colbert .
literature
- Jean Vatus: L'abbaye cistercienne du Pont-Colbert à Versailles. Cercle généalogique de Versailles et des Yvelines, Versailles 1994.
- Bernard Maréchal OC is in the Biographia Cisterciensis , version of February 2, 2016
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| SURNAME | Maréchal, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maréchal, Paul (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French religious, founder of the Cistercian Abbey of Pont-Colbert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allainville (Eure-et-Loir) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1924 |
| Place of death | Versailles |