Cistercian Abbey of Castagniers

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The Cistercian Abbey of Castagniers has been a French monastery of the Cistercians since 1930 in Castagniers , Alpes-Maritimes , Diocese of Nice .

history

Marie-Bernard Barnouin , who was to be thanked for the resettlement of the southern French monasteries Sénanque (1854), Fontfroide (1858) and Ségriès (1864) in the middle of the 19th century , which could be called Cistercian since 1857, also wanted nunneries and promoted them in 1865 the foundation (by mother Marie-Hildegarde) of the Notre-Dame de Salagon monastery (now a museum) in Mane (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) (not far from Forcalquier ), and in 1869 the Notre-Dame des Prés monastery ("Maria Weiden" ) in Reillanne , where his monks had erected monastery buildings, which in 1872 (under Prioress Marie-Hildegarde, † April 21, 1878) also received the Sisters of Mane. When the threat to the monasteries from the Third Republic increased from 1901 onwards , the community under Matron Marie-Lutgarde moved to the refuge monastery Notre-Dame des Anges near Turin until 1911 , but was then able to return.

Driven by various difficulties in Reillanne, a property in Castagniers, not far from Nice , was acquired in 1929 with the help of the Abbot of Lérins (as the immediate superior) and Bishop Louis-Marie Ricard of Nice , which the sisters took in in 1930 and was followed by Ricard's successor in 1932, Bishop Paul-Jules-Narcisse Rémond (1873–1963), was inaugurated. Matron Marie-Marguerite de la Trinité, elected in 1935, led the community through the difficult wartime, in which the monastery suffered from hunger, and in the 1950s set up a chocolate factory to secure its livelihood, which is still in operation. After the official incorporation into the Cistercian Order ( Congrégation de l'Immaculée Conception ) in 1960, the monastery was elevated to an abbey in 1962 . In 1970 mother Marie-Christiane became second, in 2003 mother Beata became third, and since 2012 mother Aline-Marie became fourth abbess.

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez , Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne, Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 322.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 48 ′ 4.7 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 55.2 ″  E