Staouëli Trappist Abbey

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Staouëli Abbey

The Staouëli Abbey was a French monastery of the Cistercians of the Stricter Observance in Staoueli (French: Staouéli or Staouëli) in Algeria from 1843 to 1904 .

history

Following the French conquest of Algeria (1830) founded Aiguebelle Abbey in 1843 at the invitation of the government and with the support of the governor of Algeria, Thomas Robert Bugeaud , 20 kilometers west of Algiers , the monastery of Our Lady of Staoueli , the 1846 to Abbey was raised and subsequently counted up to 120 monks. These turned the plant (as a figurehead of the civilizing efforts of France in the colony of Algeria) into an agricultural model farm, which was built in 1865 by Emperor Napoleon III. was visited. In 1894 the abbot of Staouëli became the immediate superior of the Syrian monastery Akbez. Coming from Akbez, Charles de Foucauld stayed at the monastery from September 25 to October 27, 1896 , before finally retiring to the desert.

In 1904 all monasteries were abolished by the anti-church Third Republic through the law separating church and state . The community moved to Lonato on Lake Garda and settled in the Italian Benedictine abbey Abbazia di Maguzzano , which was dissolved by Bonaparte in 1796 . Bernard Barbaroux (1892–1959) was abbot there from 1930 to 1934. The monastery only existed until 1938. The successor in Algeria came in the same year at Notre-Dame de l'Atlas Monastery in Tibhirine .

Superiors and abbots

  • François-Régis de Martrin-Donos (1843-1854)
  • Timothée Gruyer (administrator)
  • Augustin Charignon (1856-1893)
  • Louis de Gonzague Martin (1893-1899)
  • Louis de Gonzague André (1900–1905, † 1909)
  • Bernard Barbaroux (Abbot in Maguzzano, 1930–1934, † 1959)

literature

  • J. Bersange, Dom François Régis, procureur général de la Trappe à Rome, fondateur et premier abbé de N.-D. de Staouëli (Algérie) , Paris, Dumoulin, 1885 (451 pages); Paris, Briguet, 1900 (404 pages).
  • Bernard Delpal, Le silence des moines. Les trappistes au XIXe siècle: France, Algérie, Syrie , Paris, Beauchesne, 1998, 612 pages.
  • Gregor Müller, The founding of Staouëli. In: Cistercienser Chronik 8, 1896, pp. 353-360.
  • The Trappists in Algiers and their founder. Abbot Dom Franciskus Regis. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , April 18, 1897, pp. 716–721.
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012 (p. 650: Maguzzano).

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Coordinates: 36 ° 44 ′ 45.4 "  N , 2 ° 54 ′ 47.2"  E