Cistercian Abbey of Leyme

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The Cistercian Abbey of Leyme was a French monastery of the Cistercian sisters in Leyme , Département Lot , diocese of Cahors from 1220 to 1790 .

history

The monastery, founded in 1220 and closed by the French Revolution in 1790, was known under various names during its existence: Lumen Dei (“God's light”), Gratia Dei (French: la Grâce-Dieu , “God's grace”), Eremus (from the Greek eremos = Desert, see German "Eremit"), Herm , Lem (from L'Herm) or Leyme . Several priories were subordinate to the monastery : Lissac (in Lissac-et-Mouret, Département Lot, Peugniez p. 224, Méry p. 332), Vic (in Capdenac , Peugniez p. 224, Méry p. 333), Costejean (in Saint- Antonin-Noble-Val , Peugniez p. 229, Méry p. 348), La Lauzière (in Montamel, Département Lot) and Les Bouysses (in Mercuès, Département Lot). A home for the disabled has been located in the monastery buildings since 1835 (today: Institut Camille Miret with Center Hospitalier Jean-Pierre Falret ).

literature

  • Edmond Albe (1861-1926): L'abbaye cistercienne de Leyme au diocèse de Cahors. In: Revue Mabillon 16, 1926, pp. 143-165, 192-217, 284-313.
  • Jacques Antoine Delpon, Statistique du département du Lot . Paris, Bachelier 1831, pp. 539-540.
  • Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus . Vienna 1877, S. LVIII sv Eremus.
  • Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 332.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 224.
  • Joseph Vaissète, Géographie historique ecclesiastique et civile ou description de toutes les parties du globe terrestre: enrichie de cartes geographiques. Tome troisième . Paris, Desaint 1755, p. 14.
  • Annie Noé-Dufour: "Le Prieuré des Cisterciennes de Costejean, à Saint-Antonin". In: Caylus & Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val: Tarn-et-Garonne. Le patrimoine de deux cantons aux confins du Quercy du Rouergue . Paris, Inventaire Général des Monuments 1993, pp. 110-114.

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