Vico Trappist Convent

The Trappistinnenkloster Vico is since 1978 the monastery of Trappist nuns in Arnedo , La Rioja in Spain .

history

The monastery of Nuestra Señora de Vico (3 km west of Arnedo, 55 km south-east of Logroño ) goes back to an apparition of Mary by the local Mohammedan chief in the 11th century, who then converted, led a hermit's life and was succeeded. Vico is documented for the first time as a place of grace and pilgrimage in 1222, then again in the 14th century. In 1456 the Franciscan Lope de Salinas founded a monastery there, which existed until the disamortization in 1835. The miraculous image came to the parish church of Arnedo and continued to be honored by pilgrimages. In 1977, under Abbess Inmaculada Cedrón Preciado, the monastery was repopulated by the Trappist convent, who had previously lived in the Alconada monastery . Isabel Rivero Navarro has been the abbess of the monastery since 2005.

literature

• Jaime Cobreros Aguirre: Guía para visitar los Santuarios marianos de La Rioja . Encuentro, Madrid 1990, pp. 61-75 (illustrated).
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 808.

Web links

• Website of the monastery
• Monastery page on the Trappist homepage, with abbess list and localization
• Monastery page in the Cistopedia, with illustrations and localization

Coordinates: 42 ° 12 ′ 33.8 ″  N , 2 ° 8 ′ 1.7 ″  W.