Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Trappist Abbey

The Trappist Abbey Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae ad Nives ) has been a French monastery in St-Laurent-les-Bains in the Ardèche department ( diocese Viviers ) since 1850 .

history

The Trappist monastery of Aiguebelle founded in 1850 in the solitude of the northern Cevennenrandes the monastery of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges ( "Lady of the Snows", to 1861 Notre Dame de La Felgère ), the 1852 Priorat and 1874 (with 90 monks) for Abbey charged has been.

Robert Louis Stevenson stayed in the monastery for the night of September 26th to 27th, 1878. In his book Journey with the Donkey through the Cevennes , he devotes a chapter to the monastery and very vividly reproduces a conversation in the course of which he urgently needs to be converted advised to avoid the eternal hellfire.

The most famous novice from January to June 1890 (under the religious name Albéric ) was Charles de Foucauld , who was then sent to the Akbez daughter monastery in Syria (today: Turkey ).

After his escape from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (1942), Robert Schuman stayed in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges monastery until the end of the war.

Superiors, priors and abbots

Geniez Bouniol (1850-1851)
Gabriel Monbet (1851-1854)
Bernard Raymond (1854–1855)
Cyprien Gros (1855)
Emmanuel Bernex (1855-1858)
Polycarpe Marthoud (1858–1882)
Joseph Goddard (1882-1887)
Martin Martin (1887–1908)
Martin Jouve (1909-1912)
Augustin Martin (1912-1932)
Jean-Marie Balmes (1932-1949)
Toussaint Louche (1949–1959)
Claudius Valor (1959-1982)
Pierre-Marie Fayolle (1982-2002)
Hugues Chapelain de Seréville (2002–)

Foundations

Trappist Monastery Akbez (also: Cheikhlé), Syria, today: Turkey (1882–1926)

(Refuge) Cordemois, Belgium (1903–1922), later Clairefontaine-Cordemois Trappist Abbey

(Restoration and repopulation) Oseira Monastery (1929).

literature

Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France , Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 520.
Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 338.

Web links

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