San Isidro de Dueñas Monastery
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The monastery of San Isidro de Dueñas (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Sancto Isidoro ) is a former Benedictine monastery near the small town of Dueñas in the province of Palencia in northern Spain .
location
The monastery of San Isidro de Dueñas is located in the Castilian plateau ( Meseta ) between the rivers Carrión and Pisuerga approx. 15 km south of the city of Palencia at an altitude of approx. 750 m . Today the Autovía A-62 passes near the monastery.
history
The monastery of San Isidro , consecrated to the early Christian saint Isidoros of Chios and first mentioned in a document in 911 , was probably founded in the 7th century by the Visigoths , but destroyed by the Moors in the 8th century. Already at the end of the 9th century the area was occupied by the Asturian King Alfons III. recaptured ( reconquista ) and repopulated ( repoblación ) ; The revival of the monastery by Mozarab monks is also attributed to him. In the 17th century, a new residential wing in the late Herrera style was built . In 1835 it fell victim to the dissolution of the monasteries ( desamortización ) , after which it was empty. The Spanish-born abbot Cándido Albalat y Puigcerver of the French Trappist monastery Désert near Toulouse had it successfully repopulated in 1891 by some of his monks. The monastery became a priory in 1897 and an abbey in 1900 .
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Ange Ginabat Groizard (1891-1916)
- Felix Alonso Garcia (1916–1939)
- Bonaventure Ramos Caballero (1940–1971)
- Manuel Perez Cervino (1971–1982)
- Gonzalo Fernández Fernández (1982-2000)
- Enrique Trigueros Castillo (2000–2012)
- Juan Javier Martín Hernández (2012–)
The most important monk was Rafael Arnáiz Barón (1911–1938) , who was canonized in 2009 .
Founding of subsidiaries
The monastery founded the daughter monasteries of San Pedro de Cardeña (1942), Bela Vista in Angola (1958), Jacona in Mexico (1979) and Paraiso in Ecuador (1999).
literature
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Esprit des lieux, patrimoine, hotel business. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, ISBN 978-2-7468-2624-3 , p. 823.
Web links
- Abbey website
- San Isidro page in the Trappist homepage
- Albalat, Candide, in: Biographia Cisterciensis
- Short biography of Abbot Albalat, French
- Short biography of Abbot Albalat, French
- Ginabat, Ange, in: Biographia Cisterciensis
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 57 " N , 4 ° 30 ′ 59" W.