Cistercian abbey of Sainte-Catherine (Avignon)
The Cistercian Abbey of Sainte-Catherine was a French monastery of the Cistercian sisters in Avignon , Vaucluse department from 1150 to 1792 . The buildings have been classified as Monument historique since 1974 .
history
The Benedictine monastery of Montdevergues , which Bernhard von Clairvaux personally incorporated into the Cistercian order in 1150 , moved to the neighboring city of Avignon in 1254 for greater security, founded a subsidiary in Manosque in 1636 (Peugniez, p. 318) and was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1792 . Two of the nuns, the sisters Marguerite-Eléonore (* 1746) and Madeleine-Françoise (* 1754) de Justamond, who secretly continued their vocation in Bollène , were executed together with the other martyrs of Orange in July 1794 and beatified in 1906 . The monastery church, listed in 1974, is now home to the Théâtre du Chêne noir (on rue Sainte-Catherine ), which plays a role in the Avignon Festival .
literature
- Marie de la Trinité Kervingant (1903–1990), Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines . Beauchesne, Paris 1989, pp. 47, 50.
- Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France . Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 512.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 329.
Web links
- Mention of "Catherine, Sainte (Avignon)" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
- Municipal information, French, illustrated
- Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ste-Catherine in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′ 1.8 ″ N , 4 ° 48 ′ 35.6 ″ E