Portalegre Cistercian Abbey

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The Cistercian Abbey Portalegre (also: São Bernardo de Portalegre ) was 1518-1878 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Portalegre in Portugal .

history

When Jorge de Melo, abbot of Alcobaça Monastery since 1505 , was appointed Bishop of Guarda in 1518 (until 1548), he founded the Cistercian Abbey of Nossa Senhora da Conceição ("Our Lady of Conception") in Portalegre (from 1550 itself a bishopric ) which he also made his burial place. The monastery, the church of which was consecrated in 1572, was known as Mosteiro de São Bernardo de Portalegre (Latin: Sanctus Bernardus Portalegrensis ). Like all Portuguese monasteries after the victory of the Liberals in the Miguelista War , Portalegre Abbey was closed to newcomers in 1834. The last nun died in 1878. The buildings in the inner-city parish of São Lourenço (Portalegre) , which have been listed since 1910 , now house a police school. The monastery is famous for its two cloisters, its azulejos decoration and the tomb of Bishop Jorges, the largest of its kind in Portugal.

literature

  • Domingos Bucho: Mosteiro de São Bernardo de Portalegre. Estudo historico-arquitectónico. Propostas de recuperação e valorização do património edificado . Évora 1994.

Manual literature

  • Maur Cocheril : Routier des abbayes cisterciennes du Portugal . Portuguese Cultural Center, Paris 1978 (newly edited by Gérard Leroux, Center culturel portugais, Paris 1986).
  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 2343.
  • Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus . Vindobonae 1877, S. LVII ("S. Bernardus Portalegrensis").
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 892–893.

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Coordinates: 39 ° 17 ′ 47 "  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 36"  W.