Saint-Michel-de-Frigolet
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Frigolet Abbey (lat. Abbatia Ferigoletensis ) is an abbey of the Norbertine and former Benedictine monastery in the hills of the Montagnette in the municipality of Tarascon .
history
Saint-Michel was founded in the 10th century after monks from Montmajour had left the marshes around their mother monastery for health reasons and had moved to the much more pleasant surroundings of the Montagnette: the monastery was around the pilgrimage chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Remède built.
One of the greatest attractions of the monastery are three paintings by Pierre Mignard in gilded woodwork , which Anna of Austria donated to the monastery in 1638 after giving birth to the future Sun King Louis XIV after 23 years of childlessness . During this time the entire monastery is called Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Remède.
After the abbey was secularized during the French Revolution in 1791 and later sold, it was a boarding school for a while, and the young Frédéric Mistral was one of its pupils from 1839 to 1841 .
The owner of the complex had a new building built around the pilgrimage chapel, which today forms the left side of the apse of the abbey church built in 1858. The old abbey church of Saint-Michel (11th century) as well as the chapter house and the refectory of the monastery were also included in the construction . In the same year the monastery of Saint-Michel-de-Frigolet was re-founded by Premonstratensian choirs under Edmond Boulbon , and in 1869 the foundation was given the status of an abbey.
1880 had in connection with the anti-clerical policies of the then French government living in the monastery Premonstratensian Saint-Michel for the first time leave - the operation was due to the resistance of canons known as the "Siege of Frigolet". The conventuals went into temporary exile in England, where they founded the Storrington Priory .
Another expulsion followed in 1903, the Premonstratensians went to Leffe in Belgium and the state sold the buildings. During the First World War the buildings were used as a prison camp. The end of the war brought the end of the political conflicts, and around 1922 the members of the order were able to return from their exile.
In 1982 the abbey church was raised to the rank of basilica by Pope John Paul II .
Literary adaptation
Alphonse Daudet describes in his collection of novels " Lettres de mon moulin " (1866), German: " Letters from my mill " (1879), in the fictional story " L'Élixir du révérend père Gaucher " the production of a monastery liqueur by the Premonstratensian brother Gaucher, who freed the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Frigolet from its precarious economic situation.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 51 ′ 30 " N , 4 ° 43 ′ 40" E