Cistercian Abbey of Les Salenques
The Cistercian Abbey Les Salenques was 1353-1792 a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in Les Bordes-sur-Arize Department Ariège , 1575 in Montesquieu-Volvestre , Haute-Garonne , from 1,645 in Foix and from 1679 in Toulouse region Okzitanien , in France .
history
Gaston Phébus and his mother Alienor von Comminges founded the Abondance-Dieu (Abundance of Grace) monastery in Les Bordes-sur-Arize in 1353 and gave the nuns the Salenques castle (with the Saint Felix church ) in 1365 , of which there are still remains are. After their monastery was destroyed by the Huguenots , the nuns went to Montesquieu-Volvestre in 1575 , tried in vain a viable new beginning in Les Bordes from 1630 to 1645 and moved to the capital Foix , where a street still today bears the name "rue des Salenques". In 1681 the monastery was finally relocated to Toulouse (and in 1792 by the French Revolutioncanceled). In Toulouse, too, the “rue des Salenques” commemorates the Cistercian women. In 1761 the nuns of Fabas were incorporated into the Les Salenques monastery.
literature
- Georges Doublet: Le couvent des Dames Salenques de l'ordre de Cîteaux à Foix au XVIIe siècle . In: Annales du Midi . Revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale 8. 29, 1896, pp. 43–60.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 208.
Web links
- Mention of “Salenques, les” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Colloquium program on the Cistercian convents of the Province of Comminges, French
- Brief history of the abbey, illustrated, in French
- Brief history of the abbey, French
- Archive information, French
- Newspaper article on rue des Salenques in Foix, with picture, French