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Saint-Thierry Abbey
l'Abbaye du Mont d'Hor
Entrance of the Abbey
Saint-Thierry Abbey is located in France
Saint-Thierry Abbey
Location within France
Monastery information
OrderBenedictines
DenominationCatholic Church
Establishedc. 500
Dedicated toSaint Thierry
ArchdioceseReims
Architecture
Heritage designationClassé MH 1926–1932[1]
Site
LocationSaint-Thierry, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne
CountryFrance
Coordinates49°18′17″N 3°57′56″E / 49.3047°N 3.9655°E / 49.3047; 3.9655
Websitewww.benedictines-ste-bathilde.fr/les-monasteres/monastere-de-saint-thierry/

Saint-Thierry Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Thierry) was formerly a Benedictine abbey in the village of Saint-Thierry, Marne, It was closed in the 17th century and razed to the ground during the French Revolution. Since 1968 it has been a Benedictine nunnery in the Archdiocese of Reims.

History

The abbey was founded by Theodoric of Mont d'Hor around 500 and dedicated to Saint Bartholomew the Apostle.[2] This men's abbey became Benedictine around 974 and Adalbero of Reims had Thierry's relics transferred to the monastery. The cult of Thierry supplanted that of Bartholomew in the long term.

It became a monastery of the Congregation of Saint Maur from 1627/1628 until its suppression. It was abolished on 2 April 1695 by King Louis XIV.[a] This was to compensate for the damage that the Church of Reims suffered during the creation of the Archdiocese of Cambrai. This extinction was ratified by a papal bull of Pope Innocent XII dated 13 September 1696, and it became the secondary residence of the archbishops of Reims. In 1777 the community was driven out and the abbey completely razed; the community being relocated for a time to Reims. Only the chapter house, dating from the 12th century, remained standing.

Bernard de Montfaucon made an inventory of the books of the abbey in his Bibliotheca bibliecarum manuscriptorum nova, Paris, 1739, and there are still nearly 150, mostly in the Municipal Library of Reims as well as a few copies in the Vatican Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France

After two centuries of interruption, monastic life resumed on the hill of Saint-Thierry when the Benedictines of the Vanves congregation arrived in 1968. The long tradition of prayer, hospitality and work began to be reborn.

List of abbots and commendatory abbots

Gallery

Notes

  1. ^ Letters and procedures for the extinction of the title of the abbey of S. Thierry, at Mont d'Or, of the order of S. Benoist and of the Diocese of Reims, and for the union of the fruits and revenues of the property of the said Abbey to the Archbishopric of Reims are preserved in BM Reims, CR IV 268 M.

Citations

  1. ^ a b Base Mérimée: abbaye, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  2. ^ Ourlier 1976.
  3. ^ Escallier 1852, p. 88.

Sources

  • Escallier, Eugène Alexis (1852), "VII", L'Abbaye d'Anchin 1079-1792 (in French), Lille: L. Lefort
  • Ourlier, Jacques (11–14 October 1976), "Le monastère de Saint-Thierry aux époques mérovingienne et carolingienne", Actes du colloque international d'histoire monastique (in French)
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