Akbez Trappist Monastery
The Trappist Akbez was from 1881 to 1926, a French monastery of the Trappists at Meidan Ekbis in the Nur Mountains in Syria , today in Turkey , north Hassa (Hatay) , near the Syrian border.
history
In view of the threat posed by the anti-church Third Republic , the French Trappist Abbey founded Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in 1881 near the Kurdish town of Meydan Ekbaz (also: Meydan Akpas or: Akbez , French: Maydan Akbès , formerly also: Cheikhlé , later the station of the Baghdad Railway ) in Syria (which belonged to the Ottoman Empire ) at the time, the Notre-Dame du Sacré-Coeur monastery (“Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”). In 1894 the supervision of Akbez changed from Neiges Monastery to the Algerian Staouëli Monastery . Charles de Foucauld , who has lived in Akbez since July 1890 , went to the southern Algerian desert via Staouëli in 1896. During the First World War, the monks had to give up the monastery. The new beginning failed after the war due to the Kurdish uprising . In 1926 the monastery was officially closed.
Upper and priors (selection)
- Polycarpe Marthoud (* 1827; † 1895),
- Louis de Gonzague Martin (* 1854; † 1899)
literature
- JB Reydon, Dom Polycarpe, premier abbé de la Trappe de Notre-Dame des Neiges , Nîmes, Gervais-Bedot, 1897; Nîmes, Lacour, 1989 (reprint).