Chimay Trappist Abbey

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Trappist Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Paix Chimay

The Trappistinnenabtei Chimay (lat. Abbatia Pax Beatae Mariae ) is since 1919 Belgian monastery of Trappist nuns in Chimay , Hainaut , Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai .

history

The Cistercian Abbey of Gomerfontaine in Trie-la-Ville (founded in 1207, elevated to an abbey in 1226), which had a tradition of strict observance since the 17th century , existed until 1792. From 1802 it came through a survivor of the monastery (together with survivors of the Abbey Pont-aux-Dames and others) to a new formation, first in Ham , from 1804 in Nesle , from 1816 in Saint-Paul-aux-Bois, Département Aisne . There the nuns called themselves the Saint-Paul-aux-Bois Saint-Pauls . Her superior Pauline Ducastel (solemn profession 1779 in Gomerfonatine) turned to Augustin de Lestrange , who arrived in December 1817 to promote his overly strict monastic rule, but the nuns spoke out against it. It was not until 1877 that they became officially Trappist again . When the hostile Third Republic abolished all monasteries in 1904 , they went outside the country to Fourbechies, Froidchapelle , in Belgium, and from there in 1919 to Chimay near the Trappist Abbey of Scourmont . Here they gave up their wish to return and their old name in 1925 and founded the Abbey Notre-Dame de La Paix ("Maria Frieden", abbey since 1927), which still exists today. When the abbey counted 100 people in 1937, it founded the Koningsoord subsidiary in the Netherlands (near the Trappist abbey in Tilburg ) . From May to August 1940 she found refuge in the monastery of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray .

Superiors, prioresses and abbesses from 1805

  • Pauline Ducastel (1805-1835)
  • Stéphanie d'Alincourt (1835-1854)
  • Joséphine Duplaquet (1854–1860, 1866–1872)
  • Placide Canappe (1860–1866)
  • Rose Coureur (1872-1878)
  • Marguerite-Marie Dorbe (1878-1883)
  • Adélaïde Hodé (1883-1919)
  • Madeleine Schockaert (1919–1925)
  • Beatrix Pirnay (1925–1934) (1st abbess )
  • Gertrude Demarrez (1934–1937, then Koningsoord)
  • Emmanuel Dujardin (1934-1946)
  • Scholastique Dal (1946–1949)
  • Anne-Marie Le Berre (1949–1957)
  • Hedwige Martinet (1957-1981)
  • Marie-Thérèse Devos (1981-1982)
  • Elizabeth Connor (1982-1984)
  • Pascale Troisgros (1984–1985)
  • Roza Van den Bosch (1986-2011)
  • Catherine Pagano (2011–)

literature

  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965): Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827. Cerf, Paris 1998, pp. 417-418.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 159, 164, 299, 302, 392.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 58.8 ″  N , 4 ° 18 ′ 29.1 ″  E