Claraval Cistercian Monastery
The Cistercian monastery Claraval (lat. Prioratus simplex BMV de Spiritu Sancto ; Port. Mosteiro Cisterciense N. Sra. Do Espírito Santo ) has been a Brazilian monastery in Claraval, Minas Gerais , diocese of Guaxupé since 1950 .
history
Monks of the Italian monastery Casamari founded the monastery Nossa Senhora do Espírito Santo ("Our Lady of the Holy Spirit") in 1950 in what was then Garimpo das Canoas (later: Claraval ), between Franca and Passos , which (after the building was built) in 1969 raised to a territorial abbey , but downgraded to a priory in 2002 and incorporated into the diocese of Guaxupé .
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Giuseppe Pietro Agostini (1950–1972, superior and abbot)
- Carmelo Domênico Recchia (1977–1999, abbot, previously administrator)
- Orani João Tempesta (1999–2002, administrator)
- José Carlos Carvalho (2002– ?, prior)
- Matthaeus Luis Silva Resende (2018, prior)
Web links
- Website of the abbey, Portuguese
- Page Claraval in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Pietro Agostini, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography), version dated February 3, 2016, URL: http://www.zisterzienserlexikon.de/wiki/Agostini,_Pietro
- Carmelo Recchia, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography), version from February 3, 2016, URL: http://www.zisterzienserlexikon.de/wiki/Recchia,_Carmelo
Coordinates: 20 ° 23 ′ 57.1 ″ S , 47 ° 17 ′ 1 ″ W.