Lombez Cistercian Convent

The Cistercian convent Lombez (also: Saint Bernard de Lombez ) was a convent of the Cistercian women in Lombez , a municipality in the Gers department in France , from 1628 to 1790 .

history

Born in Bordeaux , the Bishop of Lombez, Jean Daffis (1604–1657, Bishop 1628–1655), founded the Cistercian priory of Saint Bernard in 1628 in Lombez . The first prioress of the St. Bernard sisters was Marie de Gombault, who also came from Bordeaux. In 1640 the monastery accepted nuns from the Saint-Sigismond monastery in Orthez , and in 1761 the nuns from the dissolved monastery Rieunette . It existed until it was dissolved by the French Revolution .

literature

• Georges Couarraze: Au pays du Savès. Lombez, évêché rural, 1317-1801 . Lombez 1973. 361 pages.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 222.
• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 82 B.

Web links

• Entry “Lombez, Saint Bernard di” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• Entry “Lombez, Saint Bernard di” on the Certosa di Firenze website
• Brief information about the monastery, in French, with a picture
• Historical information, French

Coordinates: 43 ° 28 ′ 34.5 "  N , 0 ° 54 ′ 38.4"  E