La Clarté-Dieu

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The Monastery of La Clarté -Dieu ( Claritas Dei, not to be confused with the monastery Eaunes, which also was known as La Clarté -Dieu ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Saint -Paterne -Racan in the Indre- et- Loire, Centre, in France. The monastery is located in a narrow, rocky valley.

History

The monastery was founded at the instigation of the 1238 late Bishop of Winchester, Peter des Roches, to the simultaneous formation of Netley Abbey in Hampshire, England, back, built in 1239 as a daughter house of the monastery of Citeaux, and thus belonged to the filiation of Citeaux. The monastery was destroyed in 1364 by Amaury de Troo and then rebuilt. In the 17th and 18th century, the church fell into disrepair. Before the French Revolution, in which the resolution was carried, the monastery housed nurmehr four monks. After the Revolution the monastery was used as a quarry. The monastery is classified as a monument historique.

Buildings and plant

The church with a semicircular apse was closed in the north of the plant, the cloister south of church. Preserved are the Konversenbau with a wine press and two vaulted rooms and the Laiendormitorium upstairs and in ruinous condition, the stranger chapel from the 14th century, continues the two-aisled, rib-vaulted refectory of the 15th century. From a reconstruction of the 18th century is still the Abtspalais from the year 1713. The interior of the almost completely demolished church has entered the parish church of Saint- Paterne.