Trappist Abbey of La Cour-Pétral
The Trappistinnenabtei La Cour-petral was from 1845 to 1935, a French monastery of Trappist nuns in Boissy-lès-Perche, et Eure-Loir , diocese of Chartres .
history
In 1845 (after the second unsuccessful attempt to found a sustainable monastery) the Trappist women left the Mondaye Premonstratensian Abbey, which they had repopulated since 1815, and instead founded a new monastery in La Cour-Pétral Castle in Boissy-lès-Perche, southwest of Dreux . In 1859 her church Notre Dame de Bonne-Espérance (Mary Hope) was inaugurated. From 1903 to 1920 they took refuge from the anti-monastery Third Republic at the pilgrimage site Boxtel in the Netherlands. In 1935 they moved to the Trappist Abbey of Clairefontaine-Cordemois in Bouillon (Belgium) to re-establish . They were followed by the Eucharist , who stayed until 1956. Then the buildings stood empty until they were acquired by the New Acropolis Association in 1990 , restored and opened to the public in 2000.
Superiors, prioresses and abbesses
- Elisabeth Plet (1837–1863)
- Isabelle Simonis (1863–1866)
- Antoinette Mézerette (1866–1869)
- Scholastique Lepage (1869–1872)
- Madeleine Rabéjac (1872–1901)
- Elisabeth Laurin (1901–1907, first prioress)
- Madeleine Cauchois (1907-1919)
- Henriette de Jésus Luce (1919–1947, first abbess from 1935)
literature
- L'Abbaye Notre-Dame de La Coudre à Laval (Mayenne), par des Cisterciennes de La Coudre. In: Les Amis des Monastères , number 137, January 2004, pp. 7–37, here pp. 15–16.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 104.
- Augustin-Hervé Laffay: Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme. 1754-1827. Cerf, Paris 1998 (also dissertation, University of Lyon III 1994).
Web links
- Page of the current owner with illustrated history of the monastery
- Family tree of the French Trappist women
- Clairefontaine page on the Trappist homepage with prehistory, French
- Brief history of the monastery, French
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 0 ° 55 ′ 10.8 ″ E