Cistercian Abbey of Saint-Sigismond
The Cistercian Abbey of Saint-Sigismond (also: Saint-Bernard ) was 1127-1774 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Orthez , a town in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France .
history
In 1127 (according to other sources, 1130), the women's monastery of Saint-Sigismond (named after Sigismund of Burgundy ) was founded in front of the gates of Orthez, northwest of Pau , not far from the Cistercian Abbey Sauvelade in the then diocese of Lescar . In 1640 it settled in the Saint-Bernard priory in Lombez . In 1774 it was incorporated into the then Ursuline monastery . There are no structural remains, but a new district in Orthez bears the name Jardins de Saint Sigismond .
literature
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 47.