Cistercian monastery of Solius
| Cistercian monastery of Solius | |
|---|---|
 Church of Santa Agnès de Solius |
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| location |
 Spain province of Girona |
| Coordinates: | 41 ° 48 '53.2 " N , 2 ° 57' 42.9" E |
| founding year | 1967 |
| Mother monastery | Poblet Monastery |
The Cistercian monastery Solius is a 1967 monastery of Cistercian in Santa Cristina d'Aro, Baix Empordà , province of Girona , in Catalonia .
history
Edmon María Garreta i Olivella (1921-2017), longtime abbot of the monastery Poblet , founded at the end of his term in 1967 with several brothers in Solius, part of Santa Cristina d'Aro, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona , the monastery of Santa Maria de Solius , the 1987 Priory was raised and whose 50th anniversary he still lived. The architect Joaquim Maggioni i Casadevall (1931–1995) erected monastery buildings around the already existing (and widely visible) local church of St. Agnes from the 18th century (with a medieval core). The (currently nine) monks specialize in bookbinding and book restoration. The monastery library is considerable. A special attraction of the monastery is a crib museum .
literature
- Edmon Garreta: Solius, paratge monàstic . In: Revista de Girona 136, 1989.
- Edmon Garreta: El monestir de Solius compleix vint-i-cinc anys . In: Revista de Girona 155, 1992.
- Jaume Gabarró: La vida monastica a Solius . Solius 1992.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 786.
Web links
- Website of the monastery (Catalan and Spanish)
- Lexicon article on the monastery (Catalan)
- Short presentation, illustrated (Catalan)
- Short presentation, illustrated (English)
- Monastery entry (Italian)
- Information on founding, with literature (Catalan)
- Interview with a monk, video (Catalan)
- Newspaper article on the 50th anniversary of its existence (Catalan)
- On the death of the founder of the monastery (Catalan)
- Garreta, Edmon, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)