Cistercian Abbey of Montreuil-les-Dames
The Cistercian Abbey of Montreuil-les-Dames was a monastery of the Cistercian women from 1136 to 1792 , first in Rocquigny , Aisne department , and from 1657 in Laon , France .
history
The Montreuil-les-Dames (also: Montreuil-en-Thiérache ) monastery was founded in 1136 by Bishop Barthélemy de Jur (1080-1158) in the north of the Thiérache on the Chaudière stream (west of Fourmies ) and was so popular that it was already in 1140 the monastery of Fervaques and in 1239 also the monastery of Le Sauvoir . In 1657 it moved to Laon (also under the name Montreuil-sous-Laon ). Catherine de Cardevacque, Marquise d'Havrincourt, is known as the abbess in the 18th century. The monastery had been closed since the French Revolution . In Laon, the Montreuil district is reminiscent of the monastery, a small part of which has been preserved (1, place Jacques de Troyes ).
In 1249, the future French Pope Urban IV gave his sister, the abbess Sybille of the Montreuil-les-Dames monastery, a handkerchief of Veronica or Abgar image , which is still venerated in the cathedral of Laon today.
literature
- André Grabar: La Sainte-Face de Laon. Le Mandylion dans l'art orthodoxe . Seminarium Kondakovianum, Prague 1931.
- Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 434 (erroneously “Monteuil”).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 293.
Web links
- Mention of “Montreuil-les-Dames” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Page to the image of Laon, French
- Article by Pierre de Riedmatten on the image of Laon, French