Saint-Benoît de Port-Valais
The Saint-Benoît de Port-Valais Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Le Bouveret in the Swiss canton of Valais . Like all Benedictine abbeys, it is exempt and subordinate directly to the Benedictine Confederation .
history
In 1924 two decided monks from the Abbey of Maredsous in Belgium, the Valais Hildebrand Zimmermann and the Belgian Bonaventure Sodar, the Benedictine presence in the Romandie revitalize. They were first taken up by Bishop Viktor Bieler in the Longeborgne hermitage in Bramois near Sion . However, this place soon proved to be too small, and so the community moved to the Corbières Castle in the canton of Friborg , which was made available to them in 1928 by a doctor from Friborg . In 1935 it was confirmed as a priory . Due to the ban on founding monasteries in Switzerland until 1973, however, the foundation was subordinated directly to the responsible abbot of the Benedictine order and hardly appeared in public.
In 1956 the company moved again, this time to Le Bouveret in the canton of Valais. In the same year the priory was elevated to an abbey and Dom Bonaventure Sodar became the first abbot . André Kolly has been his successor since 1993. According to their own statements, around a dozen monks live in the abbey today. You have been overseeing the Chapelle du Vorbourg near Delémont in the canton of Jura since 1995 .
Individual evidence
literature
- François Huot: Le Prieuré Saint-Michel de Port-Valais , in: Annales valaisannes 1978, pp. 119–147.
Web links
- Official website (French)
Coordinates: 46 ° 23 ′ 7 " N , 6 ° 51 ′ 1" E ; CH1903: 554739 / 137272