Clairefontaine-Cordemois Trappist Abbey
The Trappistinnenabtei Clairefontaine Cordemois (lat. Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Clarofonte ; double. Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Clairefontaine ) is since 1935 a Belgian monastery of Trappist nuns in Bouillon (Belgium) , Province of Luxembourg , Roman Catholic Diocese of Namur .
(It should not be confused with the former Cistercian abbeys of the same name, Clairefontaine in Arlon (Belgium) and Clairefontaine in Polaincourt-et-Clairefontaine in the Haute-Saône department, Franche-Comté region, France).
history
The Trappist women of La Cour-Pétral left their French location in 1935 and, with the help of the architect Henri Vaes (1876–1945), built a neo-Gothic monastery in the Semois valley near Bouillon ( Cordemois , also: Cordemoy ) in southern Belgium (near the French border) , which they called Notre-Dame de Clairefontaine , reviving the tradition of the former Cistercian Abbey of Clairefontaine, the ruins of which are 80 kilometers southeast of Arlon . They used buildings that monks of the Trappist Abbey of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges had built when they chose the site from 1901 to 1922 as a refuge from the anti-monastery policies of the Third Republic .
Abbesses
- Henriette de Jésus Luce (1919–1947, first abbess from 1935)
- Gertrude Magos (1947-1959)
- Lutgarde Boucher (1959–1983)
- Gérard Allard (1983-2008)
- Anne-Marie Dusart (2009-2014)
- Marcelle Bodson (2014-)
literature
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 401.
- Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé : De la Sainteté et des Devoirs de la Vie Monastique. Le texte original de 1683/1701 transcrit par les Sœurs dans Notre Dame de Clairefontaine , ed. by Jochen Michels. Saarbrücken, Éditions Croix du Salut, 2014.
Web links
- Web presence of the abbey in the CoReB, Conférence des Religieuses et Religieux de Belgique, French
- Website of the abbey on the MONASTIC portal, French
- Clairefontaine page of the TRAPPIST association, German
- Clairefontaine (bouillon) page in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Clairefontaine Monastery page on the Trappist homepage
See also
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '47.3 " N , 5 ° 2' 49.7" E