Trappist Abbey of Caldey

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Caldey Abbey

The Trappist Abbey Caldey Abbey (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Caldey ) has been a Welsh monastery on Caldey Island off the coastal town of Tenby , Diocese of Menevia , since 1929 .

history

Similar to the monastery island Île Saint-Honorat in front of Cannes (with the Lérins Abbey ), Caldey Island was also settled by monks in the 6th century. From the 12th century until 1536 there was a priory of the so-called Tironenserordens, a Benedictine congregation of Bernhard von Tiron . From 1906 to 1925 Benedictine monks of the Anglican Church settled on the island (under the leadership of Aelred Carlyle , 1874–1955) , who converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1914 . They were followed by Belgian Trappists from Scourmont Abbey , who founded the Caldey Monastery in 1929 (in the buildings built by their predecessors), which was made a priory in 1934 and an abbey in 1959 . The Norwegian Bishop John Willem Gran emerged from Caldey Abbey .

Superiors, priors and abbots

  • André Garcette (1929-1930)
  • Aelred Lefèvre (1930-1942)
  • Jérome Robert (1942-1946)
  • Albert Derzelle (1946–1954)
  • Eugene Boylan (1955-1959)
  • Samson (James) Wickstead (1959-1980)
  • Robert O'Brien (1980-1997)
  • Daniel van Santvoort (1999-)

literature

  • Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975): The Benedictines of Caldey. The Story of the Anglican Benedictines of Caldey and their Submission to the Catholic Church . London, Catholic Book Club, 1940 (monk author).
  • Peter Frederick Anson: Abbot Extraordinary. A Memoir of Aelred Carlyle, Monk and Missionary, 1874–1955 , New York, Sheed and Ward, 1958.
  • Christopher Howells and Ross Grieve: Caldey Island. The Revealing Story of the Enchanted Holy Island and the Monks in their Woodland Sanctuary , Cardiff, Graffeg, 2010.
  • Roscoe Howells: Total Community. The Monks of Caldey Island , Tenby, HG Walters, 1975.
  • Rene Kollar : Abbot Aelred Carlyle, Caldey Island, and the Anglo-Catholic Revival in England , New York, P. Lang, 1995.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 965.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 15.2 "  N , 4 ° 41 ′ 11.7"  W.