Pierre le Vif

The Abbey of Saint -Pierre -le- Vif ( S. Peter de Vivo ) was a monastery in Sens ( Yonne ).

History

The church of Saint -Pierre was founded according to tradition, in the 3rd century by St. Savinius of Sens, the - also according to tradition - the first Archbishop of Sens Secured however, is that at the beginning of the 6th century Theudechild ( † before 579 ), the daughter of the Frankish king Theodoric I, the convent of Saint- Pierre -le- Vif founded. With her ​​death Theudechild bequeathed a large number of domains to the monastery, so that it quickly became one of the richest of the Archdiocese of Sens.

For about 564 was under the abbey of the Benedictine rule. In the year 999 Saint- Pierre -le- Vif was converted into a monastery. The monastery was situated east of the city mittlelalterlichen around which soon developed a village that became a suburb of Sens. In the centuries of its existence, the abbey was at least ten times destroyed, looted or severely damaged, whether by fire, Norman or other " barbaric " attacks, or by Calvinists during the Wars of Religion.

The importance of the abbey within the Archdiocese of Sens opens from the fact that the new archbishop, including his entourage lived before his inauguration at the Abbey and even then collected on the day of the ceremony and was led to the cathedral. This process was first mentioned in the 8th century and was still in the 17th century.

From the year 1534 the abbey was then - like many other monasteries also - no longer routed through regular abbots, but by Kommendataräbte who could claim the entire income of the monastery in person. 1639 took Saint- Pierre -le- Vif the Reformation Maurist. On November 1, 1713 Saint- Pierre -le- Vif then lost by royal command the rank of an abbey; the income of the monastery no longer came to the office holder benefit, but the mission.

The monastery was sold during the Revolution. However, the purchaser has occurred in the name of Louise Anne de Poupardin d' Amaury, widow of Paul Charles Marie de Loménie de Brienne. A little later the abbey was then owned by Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, the former finance minister and current Archbishop of Sens and cardinal. He intends to take his residence in the monastery and had set up an apartment in 1791 in the buildings by the architect Pierre -François- Léonard Fontaine, however, could not benefit from the conversion appreciably since he was arrested in late 1793 and early 1794 in prison died.

The church was later demolished, only the (underground ) crypt dating from the 9th century remained. The relics, however, were brought into the church Saint -Pierre- le -Rond already during the time of the terror of two monks and been so saved. It was not until 50 years later, in 1843, they were transferred to the Cathedral of Sens.

The monastery was re-opened on 15 May 1837 as branch of Notre -Dame de la Charité du Bon Pasteur d' Angers. It was simply called ' Couvent du Bon Pasteur " called and dealt by 15 July 1921 juvenile offenders. After that, the buildings were used by the city administration.

Works from the Abbey

  • Chronique de Saint -Pierre -le- Vif de Sens, dite de Clarius. Chronicon Sancti Petri Vivi senonensis, ed. by Robert Henri Bautier and Monique Gilles, 1979
  • Geoffroy de Courlon, Le livre des reliques de l' abbaye de Saint -Pierre -le- Vif de Sens, ed. by Gustave Julliot and Maurice Prou, 1887

Regular abbots

The Abtsliste of Saint- Pierre -le- Vif follows the chronicle of the abbey and has therefore been especially created for the first centuries from memory and therefore uncertain and incomplete.

Kommendataräbte

  • 57 - 1534-1537 - Jean de la Forest, Pronotar and secretary of King Francis I, 1525-1538 first French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
  • 58 - 1539-1542 - Jean- François de Valere, hung in Venice
  • 59 - 1542-1551 - Jean de Mersancausine, almoner of the king
  • 60 - 1551-1552 - Étienne Poncher, Bishop of Bayonne from 1532 to 1551 and Archbishop of Tours from 1551 to 1552
  • 61 - 1552-1564 - Philippe Hurault, comte de Cheverny
  • 62 - 1564-1574 - François de Luxembourg, Vicomte de Machaud, Baron de Pougy etc.
  • 63 - 1574-1575 - Louis Charles de Bourbon, Cardinal
  • 64 - 1575-1579 - Louis de Mainteternes
  • 65 - 1579-1583 - René de Birague, Chancellor of France, Cardinal
  • 66 - 1584-1594 - Barthélemy de Crottes
  • 67 - 1594-1636 - Charles Prévost
  • 68 - 1636-1644 - Jean- François Berruyer
  • 69 - 1644-1668 - Jacques Berruyer
  • 70 - 1668-1713 - Jérémie Rouget, last benefice of Saint- Pierre -le- Vif

Other personalities

  • Paternus ( † about 726 ), a monk at Saint -Pierre -le- Vif, martyr and saint
  • Léotherie, sister Ebbos, saints and nun in Saint- Pierre -le- Vif
  • Archambaud de Troyes († 967 ), 958 Archbishop of Sens, buried in Saint- Pierre -le- Vif
  • Louis of Lower Lorraine (975/980-1023), son of Duke Charles of Lower Lorraine, died in Saint- Pierre -le- Vif on the way back from a pilgrimage to Mont Saint -Michel. He left the abbey his villa in Ariscourt
  • Odorannus of Sens (c. 985 to 1046 ), a monk at Saint- Pierre -le- Vif, chronicler and music Wissenschaftlerer, mason and Goldsmith
  • Dietrich ( Thierry ), Bishop of Orléans from about 1016 to 1021, was educated in Saint- Pierre -le- Vif, when his uncle was abbot Rainard.
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