Rochefort Trappist Abbey

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Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy Abbey, Rochefort
Interior of the abbey church (2007)
Monastery Brewery (2007)

Today's Trappist Rochefort (also: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy , lat. Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Sancto Remigio ) was 1230-1464 a monastery of Cistercian nuns and 1464-1797 the Cistercians and is since 1887 a monastery of Trappist monks in Rochefort , Namur Province in Belgium .

history

The Secours Notre Dame (Maria Hilfe) monastery, founded in 1230 in the district of Saint-Rémy on the Biran stream near Rochefort, was inhabited by Cistercian women until 1464. Then the poor condition of the monastery prompted the administration to exchange. The nuns went to the Félipré monastery , while the Cistercians there moved to Rochefort, where they brought the monastery to bloom again as the 28th and last direct founding of Cîteaux under the name Sanctus Remigius (Saint Rémy) (Janauschek order number 732). After severe damage, the monastery was rebuilt in 1664 (see the existing inscription: Curvata resurgo “I get up again bent over”) until it was closed (with partial dismantling) in the course of the advance of the French Revolution in 1797. In 1887 the Trappists of the Trappist Abbey Achel acquired the monastery (which was elevated to a priory in 1891 and an abbey in 1912 ) and built a new abbey church (1900 neo-Gothic, 1993 neo-Romanesque). Of the old buildings, the entrance gate (1530), the abbot's house (1705) and the guest wing (1752) have survived. The monks entertain themselves by making a Trappist beer called Rochefort . In 1954 the official language of the monastery changed from Dutch to French.

Superiors, priors and abbots

  • Anselme Judong (1887–1909)
  • Henri Kuypers (1909-1948)
  • Félicien Jacques (1948-1969)
  • Guido Devos (1969–1977)
  • Hubert Morsomme (1977–1997)
  • Jacques-Emmanuel Voisin (1997-2006)
  • Gilbert Degros (2006-)

literature

  • Jacques Toussaint (Ed.): Curvata resurgo. Histoire et patrimoine de l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy de Rochefort . Société Archéologique de Namur, Namur 2014 (344 pages).
  • Auguste Fourneau: L'abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy à Rochefort. Histoire d'une communauté cistercienne en terre de Famenne . Rochefort ¹2002, ²2006 (324 pages).
  • Monasticon Belge . I. Maredsous 1928, pp. 87-91, 176-177.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 406–407.
  • Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus . Vienna 1877, pp. 279, 305.

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