Cistercian monastery El Divino Salvador (Ferreira)

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The Cistercian monastery El Divino Salvador (also: Ferreira de Pantón ) has been a monastery of the Cistercian women in Ferreira de Pantón, Pantón, Lugo province , Galicia in Spain since 1175 .

history

The Countess Fronilde founded in 1175 in Ferreira de Pantón eleven kilometers west of Monforte de Lemos at the site of a former Benedictine monastery, the nunnery Santa María de Ferreira de Pantón or del Divino Salvador ("of the divine Savior") and was there until her death in 1195 Cistercian. The convention still exists today. He belongs to the Cistercian Congregation of San Bernardo (CCSB) . The monastery buildings, namely the Romanesque church, have been a listed building since 1975. El Divino Salvador is the only Cistercian nunnery in Galicia.

literature

  • Ferreira de Pantón. Monasterio cisterciense en la Ribera Sacra . León 2000.
  • Teresa-Claudia Moure Pena: El monasterio femenino de Ferreira de Pantón en la Edad Media Estudio histórico-artístico . Lugo 2005.
  • José Ignacio Fernández de Viana y Vieites: Colección diplomática del Monasterio de Santa María de Ferreira de Pantón . Lugo 1994.
  • Flora Enríquez Rodríguez: A hospedería do mosteiro cisterciense de Ferreira de Pantón. Pasado, presente e futuro . In: Actas IV Congreso Internacional Císter en Portugal y en Galicia. Los Caminos de Santiago y la vida monástica cisterciense , ed. by Miguel Ángel González García and José Luís Albuquerque Carreiras. Vol. 5.2. Zamora 2010, pp. 999-1014.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 755–756.

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Coordinates: 42 ° 30 ′ 31.2 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 10.8"  W.