Boneffe Cistercian Abbey
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The Cistercian abbey Boneffe was 1227-1461 a monastery of Cistercian nuns and 1461-1797 the Cistercians in Boneffe, Éghezée , Namur Province , Roman Catholic Diocese of Namur in Belgium .
history
Monks of the Cistercian Abbey of Moulins and the Cistercian Abbey of Le Jardinet settled in 1461 the Boneffe Monastery, which had existed as a nunnery until then, 20 kilometers north of Namur on the Mehaigne River (Janauschek number 717, Filiation 26.3). In the course of the French Revolution , the monastery was dissolved and dismantled. The few remains are inaccessible today. The last abbot was from 1776 Simon Gabriel (1741-1805). The last surviving monk, Jérôme Minsart († 1837), helped with the repopulation of the Cistercian Abbey of Colen from 1822 and was most recently pastor of the Saint-Loup church in Namur. A brewery in Tubize calls one of its types of beer “Abbaye de Boneffe” (Boneffe Abbey).
literature
- Leopold Janauschek , Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus , Vindobonae 1877, pp. 278–279, 322.
- Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 404-405.
Web links
- Mention of the abbey in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
- History and whereabouts of the abbey, French
- Simon, Gabriel, in: Biographia Cisterciensis
- Mention of Jérôme Minsart, French, with picture
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 14.2 " N , 4 ° 57 ′ 18.5" E