Cistercian Abbey Le Vivier (Arras)

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The Cistercian Abbey of Le Vivier (Arras) was a monastery of the Cistercian Sisters in Wancourt from 1219 to 1640 and in Arras , Northern Department , in France from 1640 to 1791 . (The monastery is not to be confused with the Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Vivier in Marche-Les-Dames, Namur , Belgium ).

history

The Notre-Dame du Vivier monastery (from: vivier = fish pond) was founded in Wancourt, southeast of Arras, in 1219 and was later also called Vivier des Champs . War devastation forced the nuns to move to the city of Arras in the 17th century. Abolished by the French Revolution , the monastery buildings served as a school and retirement home. The church, which was still a parish church for a long time, was replaced by the Saint-Géry church, so that only a wall and a gate remain from the original monastery. However, the Rue du Vivier is reminiscent of the monastery.

Le Vivier belongs to a group of 13 Cistercian convents (Beaupré, Blendecques, Bonham, La Brayelle, Flines, Fontenelles, Marquette, Les Prés, Ravensberg, Le Verger, Le Vivier, La Woestyne, Fontenelle) that were built around 1200 within a short time and on privately donated in a narrow space and facing only five Cistercian monasteries (Cercamp, Clairmarais, Longvillers, Loos and Vaucelles).

literature

  • Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.), Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a colloquium from 1998, here: p. 100).
  • Méaulens Saint-Géry. Mille ans d'un quartier d'Arras . Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-Sur-Loire 2003.
  • Jean Becquet : Abbayes et prieurés de l'ancienne France. Recueil historique des archevêchés, évéchés, abbayes et prieurés de France. 14. Province ecclésiastique de Cambrai: Diocèse actuel d'Arras . Abbaye Saint-Martin, Ligugé 1975.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 247.
  • Paul-André Roger: Archives historiques et ecclésiastiques de la Picardie et de l'Artois . Duval, Amiens 1842, p. 140.

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