Cistercian Abbey of Saint-Saëns
The Cistercian Abbey of Saint-Saëns was a Cistercian convent in Saint-Saëns in the Seine-Maritime department in France from 1167 to 1790 .
history
The place name Saint-Saëns is derived from Saint Sidonius ( Sanctus Sidonius = Saint Saëns ) who, as a monk of the Jumièges Abbey, founded a monastery in the 7th century at the site of today's municipality of Saint-Saëns, which was destroyed by the Normans in 850 . In 1167 the Empress Matilda transplanted a Cistercian convent, which already existed in the forest of Eawy at Camp Souverain , in front of the gates of Saint-Saëns on the river Varenne, where the monastery of Sidonius had once stood. The Notre-Dame de Saint-Saëns monastery, inhabited by the Bival monastery , remained a priory for a long time until it became an abbey in 1629was raised. From 1647 to 1692 the monastery was headed by abbesses who all came from important families: Anne Le Tellier (1647–1660) was the sister of Chancellor Michel Le Tellier . Madeleine Colbert de Saint-Pouange (also: Colbert de Villacerf, 1660–1680) belonged to the family of the powerful Colbert . Marie de Cassagnet de Tilladet (1681–1692) was the niece of Le Tellier. One of the frequent visitors to the monastery was Madame de Maintenon, a friend of the abbess . In 1790, the French Revolution led to the abbey being dissolved. Today the district name L'Abbaye and the forest Bois de l'Abbaye to the east remind of the former monastery.
literature
- Claude Fournier: Saint-Saëns . Volume 3: Vingt siècles de défis. Saint-Saëns 2007.
- Bernardin de Mathan: Le Prieuré de St-Saën , ed. from the Association du XIIIe centenaire de Saint-Saëns. Neufchâtel-en-Bray 1979.
- Albert Tougard: Vie de saint Saens, abbé au diocèse de Rouen , traduite pour la première fois d'après les livres d'office de l'abbaye. 1890.
- Armelle Bonis and Monique Wabont (eds.): Cisterciens et Cisterciennes en France du Nord-Ouest. Typology of fondations, typology of sites . In: Cîteaux et les femmes , ed. by Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Élizabeth Henneau. Créaphis, Paris 2001, pp. 151-175 (Rencontres à Royaumont, 15).
Manual literature
- Gallia Christiana Volume 11, p. 324.
- Louis Sandret: L'Ancienne Église de France , ou Etat des archevêchés et évêchés de France avant la Constitution civile du clergé de 1790. Sommaire et complément de la Gallia christiana. Province ecclésiastique de Rouen. J.-B. Dumoulin, Paris 1866, pp. 77-78.
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 2874.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 267.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Map collection , Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 53 C.
Web links
- Mention of "Saëns, Saint" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Entry “Saëns, Saint” on the Certosa di Firenze website
- Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
- Private page for today's domain
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 0.3 " N , 1 ° 17 ′ 11.3" E