Cistercian Abbey of Kismaros

The Cistercian Abbey Kismaros since 1987 a Hungarian monastery of Cistercian nuns in Kismaros, Pest County , in the diocese of Vác .

history

Despite the prohibition of any religious activity in communist Hungary, the Cistercian Ágnes Tímár (from the Regina Mundi underground monastery ) gathered like-minded people for religious life in the Boldogasszony Háza (House of the Holy Virgin) underground monastery in Budapest . Spiritual assistance was the piarist Ödön Lénárd (1911–2003). When Matron Ágnes and three other sisters were arrested in February 1961, Mónika Tímár (Schmidt) (born March 21, 1937, † December 13, 1962), who died early, took her place. Prioress Mónika's diary (1957–1962) and her correspondence were published in several languages ​​from 1982 onwards. Her beatification is currently being sought.

Released through an amnesty on March 31, 1963 , Ágnes Tímar was incarcerated again on April 19, 1966 and was only released in autumn 1968. She and the community moved 60 kilometers north of Budapest into a wooden house on the edge of the Börzsöny Mountains and from 1984 into a stone house on the northern bank of the Danube near the village of Kismaros. In August 1987 the monastery of the Annunciation of the Lord was officially accepted into the Cistercian order . In 1993 the priory was elevated to an abbey and prioress Ágnes was elected abbess (successor since January 2003: Olga Horváth). Since 1996 the monastery has belonged to the Zircer Cistercian Congregation . The newly built monastery church was inaugurated in 1999.

literature

• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 1097.

Ödön Lénárd and Ágnes Tímár

• Ödön Lénárd: Ways and wrong ways of the Catholic Church of Hungary in the time of the persecution by the communists , ed. by Ágnes Tímár. Pro Business, Berlin 2009. 524 pages.
• Ágnes Tímár: calling and mission. Memories of the founding abbess of Kismaros, Ágnes Tímár, up to 2003 . G. Kucsák, Vác 2012. 351 pages.

Mónika Tímár

• Monika. A testimony in Hungary . Johannes-Verlag, Einsiedeln 1982. 255 pages.
  • (French) Journal . Nouvelle Cité, Paris 1989. 285 pages.
  • (Hungarian) Mónika naplója. Egy szerzetesközösség élete az üldöztetés éveiben , ed. by Ágnes Tímár. Budapest 1990.
  • (Italian) Diario. Una giovane benedettina ungherese negli anni della persecuzione (1957–1962). Foreword by Hans Urs von Balthasar . Piemme, Casale Monferrato 1996. 349 pages.
• (French) Correspondance 1961–1962 . Vie consacrée, Namur 1995. 186 pages.

Web links

• Page of the monastery in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, with photos
• Page Kismaros of the Certosa di Firenze, with photos
• Website of the monastery, German
• Hans Jakob Ollig: The Cistercian monastery “Our Lady of the Annunciation” in Kismaros / Hungary
• Page of the French National Library on the monastery, French
• Page to the current abbess, German, with picture
• Brief history of the monastery by Ágnes Tímár, French
• Archive page about the monastery, Hungarian
• Newspaper article on Sister Mónika, French
• English page about Mónika Tímar, illustrated
• Mónika is entered in the list of candidates for beatification

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elenchus Monasteriorum Ordinis Cisterciensis (Directory of Cistercian Monasteries), edition of May 28, 2018, p. 41.