Cistercian abbey of Le Perray-aux-Nonnains
The Cistercian Abbey of Le Perray-aux-Nonnains was 1248-1790 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Écouflant , department of Maine-et-Loire , in France.
history
The Crusaders Robert de Sable donated before 1200 north Angers at the confluence of Maine and Sarthe in Écouflant (from the Latin: apud conflentum = at the confluence), a Benedictine monastery , which in 1248 settled with Cistercian and Monastery Le Loroux was assumed. The place Le Perray (from Latin perreium or porretum ) was subsequently called Le Perray-aux-Nonnains (nuns-Perray). The monastery was under strong competition from the Ronceray Benedictine Abbey in Angers. A reform-minded group of sisters founded the Sainte-Catherine priory in Angers (Rue Saint-Laud) in 1638 . When the French Revolution closed the Monastery of Le Perray in 1790 , eight sisters were still there. Today there are only a few remains, especially the entrance portal. In Écouflant, the field name Le Perray and the street name Route du Pont aux Filles (Sisters' Bridge) are reminiscent of the former monastery. In Angers, the abbess's city residence ( Hôtel du Perray , from the 16th century) is still on Rue Chevreul .
literature
- Joseph Avril: Les fondations, l'organization et l'évolution des établissements de moniales dans le diocèse d'Angers (du XIe au XIIIe siècles) . In: Les religieuses en France au XIIIe siècle , ed. by Michel Parisse. Nancy 1989.
Manual literature
- Gallia Christiana , vol. 14, columns 733-735 (with list of abbesses).
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 2256 (Perray-aux-Nonnains) and Vol. 1. Column 103 (Angers, Sainte-Catherine); Column 104 (Angers, Le Ronceray).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 278.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 62 B.
Web links
- Mention of "Perray-aux-Nonnains" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Entry “Perray-aux-Nonnains, le” on the Certosa di Firenze website
- Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
- Monastery site in the database of the French Ministry of Culture
- Hôtel du Perray page in the database of the French Ministry of Culture
- Noël-Yves Tonnerre: La place des abbayes cisterciennes dans l'histoire de l'Anjou. In: Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l'Ouest 120-3, 2013, pp. 172–187
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '26.4 " N , 0 ° 30' 15.9" W.