Trappist convent Géronde
The monastery Géronde (German also: Gerunden ) is since 2008 a Swiss monastery of Trappist nuns in Siders (Sierre), diocese of Sion hosted (Sion), which since the Middle Ages different order.
history
Today's Trappist convent Géronde (rarely: rounded ) in the canton of Valais already existed in the Middle Ages. It housed successively Augustinian canons (13th and 14th centuries), Carthusians (from 1331), Carmelites (1425-1644), Jesuits (17th century), the episcopal seminary (1748-1780, 1808-1817), and from From 1831 to 1834 the Trappists from Bellevaux Monastery who fled the July Revolution and then moved to Val-Sainte-Marie . French Dominicans fled here from 1870 . From 1893 to 1929 Géronde was a home for the deaf and dumb. In 1935, the Reformed St. Bernard Sisters of the Collombey monastery, founded by Louise de Ballon (1591–1668), settled in Géronde Monastery, which was accepted as an independent priory in the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (under the supervision of the Acey Monastery ).
Superiors and Prioresses
- Miryam Frossard (1991-)
literature
- François Huot: Rounded. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 627.
Web links
- Trappist convent Géronde on the ETHorama platform
- Page of the abbey in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
- Page of the abbey on the Trappist homepage
- The Géronde monastery in: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine 63, 1968, pp. 18–22, doi : 10.5169 / seals-174057
Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '5 " N , 7 ° 32' 34.7" E ; CH1903: 608 041 / 125927