Solesmes Congregation

The Congregation of Solesmes (or French Benedictine Congregation ) is one of the twenty independent congregations in the Benedictine Confederation.

Simultaneously with the survey of the priory of Saint- Pierre de Solesmes Abbey was founded in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI. founded the "French Benedictine Congregation ", which should unite the former congregations of Cluny, Saint -Vanne -et- Hydulphe and Saint- Maur.

Development

The new congregation is growing rapidly and can buy up Solesmes from various other monasteries again and reopen that had been dropped and secularized the Reformation or the French Revolution to the victim: The monastery in Ligugé 1853, Marseille 1856, Silos 1880 Wisques 1889 Clervaux, 1890, Sainte -Marie ( in Paris) in 1893, Saint- wall groove 1894 and Kergonan 1897.

After 1901, the monastic life was banned in France, the monks had to pull into exile. So was followed by various monastic foundations outside of France, about Saint- Benoît -du -Lac in Quebec or Quarr in England.

After the Second World War, the returning monks were able to found new monasteries again, such as the one in Fontgombault, but also in Africa and America.

Organization

In 2009, the congregation consisted of a total of 31 stores: 14 in France, 4 in Spain, 1 in Luxembourg, 2 in UK, 2 in Canada, 1 in the Netherlands, 2 in Senegal, one in Lithuania, 2 in the U.S. and 2 priories in Martinique. Named giving main monastery of the Congregation is the St. Peter's Abbey in Solesmes, whose respective abbot born president of the Congregation is: Since 1992 Dom Philippe Dupont.

List of houses

[ Figures from May 2009]

  • Abbaye Saint -Pierre de Solesmes (1010 ) 66 monks
  • Abbaye Notre -Dame de Annunciation Clear Creek (1999) (Oklahoma, USA)
  • Abbaye de Clervaux ( Luxembourg )
  • Abbaye Notre- Dame de Fontgombault
  • Monastère Notre- Dame de Ganagobie 18 monks
  • Prieuré Notre Dame de Gaussan, depending on Fontgombault
  • Abbaye Sainte -Anne de Kergonan (1897 ) 34 monks
  • Abbaye Saint -Michel de Kergonan, sisters
  • Prieuré de Keur Guilaye (Dakar, Senegal ), sisters
  • Abbaye de Keur Moussa ( 1963) ( Senegal) 44 monks
  • Priory of Sainte -Marie -des- Anges ( 1977) ( Le Carbet, Martinique ) 16 sisters
  • Abbaye de Leyre (Navarra, Spain) 24 monks
  • Abbaye Saint -Martin de Ligugé 28 monks
  • Priory of Our Lady of Montserrat de Madrid 8 monks, depending on silos
  • Prieuré de Palendriai ( Kelmė, Lithuania) 11 monks, depending on Solesmes
  • Abbaye Sainte -Marie, Rue de la Source, Paris, 7 Monks
  • Abbaye de Quarr (Île de Wight, England) 11 monks
  • Abbaye Notre- Dame de Randol (1971 )
  • Abbaye de Ryde (1882 ) (Île de Wight, England) 30 sisters
  • Abbaye de Saint- Benoît -du -Lac (1912 ) (Québec, Canada) 47 monks
  • Abbaye Saint- wall groove 50 monks
  • Abbaye Sainte -Marie -des- Deux- Montagnes ( Sainte -Marthe -sur -le- Lac, Quebec, Canada) 40 sisters
  • Priory Notre -Dame du Mont des Oliviers ( Schœlcher, Martinique ), depending on Solesmes
  • Abbaye de Silos (941) (Burgos, Spain) 30 monks
  • Abbaye Sainte -Cécile de Solesmes 50 sisters
  • Abbaye Notre- Dame de Triors
  • Abbaye de Vaals ( 1951) ( Pays -Bas ) 18 monks
  • Abbaye de la Sainte -Croix (1958) ( Valley of the Fallen, France ) 27 monks
  • Monastère du Cœur de Marie de immaculé Westfield (Vermont ) 17 sisters, depending on Sainte- Marie -des- Deux- Montagnes
  • Abbaye Saint -Paul of Wisques (1889 ) 24 monks
  • Abbaye Notre- Dame de Wisques (1889 ) 30 sisters
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