Alloz Trappist Convent

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The Trappistinnenkloster Alloz is since 1884 a monastery of Trappist first in Tiñosillos, province of Ávila , 1914 in Alloz, yerri , Navarra in Spain.

history

Tiñosillos

The Blessed Cardinal Ciriaco Sancha y Hervás decided, when he was Bishop of Ávila , to found a nunnery based on the Trappist model (strict rules and lack of dowry or non-obligation to bring in property). He therefore had the Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (Our Lady of the Angels) monastery built 30 km north of Ávila in Tiñosillos (completed and moved in 1885), won Luisa Fernández Barbot, whom he knew, as superior, dressed her herself as a Cistercian in 1884, entrusted her with five novices and even supervised the episcopal monastery. However, since he was called to Madrid in 1886 and his successors were hostile to the project (and did not allow any help from French Trappist monasteries), the community initially lived under extremely difficult conditions. 19 young sisters died within 30 years. From 1891 they received support from the Trappist Abbey of San Isidro de Dueñas , as well as that of the Val San José monastery in Getafe . The proposed union with Herrera Monastery did not materialize. It was not until 1913 that the possibility of settling a grangie of the former Iranian monastery opened up , and so in 1914 the convent moved to the Granja San José monastery, located 25 km southwest of Pamplona (near Estella-Lizarra ) at the southern end of the Alloz reservoir (from 1950 Monasterio Santa María de San José ) in Alloz-Estella.

Alloz

Under Abbess Justa Larrea Urquijo (1894–1915 and 1921–1930) succeeded (after the change) in 1922 the official incorporation into the Trappist order, which had failed several times since 1886. From 1925 the spiritual help of the French monastery Blagnac could be used. The church was completed in 1950, the new monastery building in 1961. The convent, which had over 80 members in the 1970s, founded the Nuestra Señora de la Paz monastery in La Palma, Cartagena (Spain) (1976) and repopulated the Armenteira monastery (1989). Remnants of the Tiñosillos monastery, sold in 1923, are left.

literature

  • María Pablo García Górriz: El alcázar del silencio. Historia de la primera trapa femenina en España . Ed. Studies, Madrid 1961.
  • Andrés Martínez Esteban: El Cardenal Sancha en la encrucijada de la Iglesia española . Editorial Visión Libros 2014, p. 100 ff.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 798.

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Coordinates: 42 ° 41 ′ 28.7 "  N , 1 ° 56 ′ 41.6"  W.