Lucedio Abbey
Daughter monasteries
Monastery of Chiaravalle d' Ancona Monastery Rivalta Scrivia Monastery Chortaiton Monastery of St. George of Jubin
Monastery Lucedio (Santa Maria di Lucedio ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Piedmont, Italy. It is located in the town of Trino in the province of Vercelli in the vicinity of the river Po.
History
On March 21, 1124 Monastery of Ranieri di Monferrato was founded as a daughter house of second primary abbey La Ferté, possibly at the site of a former Benedictine abbey. The name of the new abbey is derived from a forest called Locez. The Abbey won major agricultural importance quickly. The third abbot, Peter I., 1147 Bishop of Pavia. The Abbot Pietro II, the Marquis Boniface of Montferrat I had accompanied on the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and is one of the electors of the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Opel, was in 1205 Abbot of La Ferté, later Archbishop of Thessaloniki and in 1209 as Peter III. Patriarch of Antioch. His successor was 1205, the later beatified Oglerio.
Lucedio was the mother monastery of Chiaravalle Abbey d' Ancona ( 1147, disputed), Monastery Rivalta Scrivia ( 1181 ) and monastery Chortaiton in Thessaloniki ( 1214 ). Peter III. sought the establishment of a Cistercian monastery in the Principality of Antioch. He finally came when he led the already existing, but still no medals belonging to the monastery of St. George of Jubin 1214 with the help of a founding Convention of Lucedio in the order of the Cistercians.
In the 15th century the Cistercians introduced the cultivation of rice. In 1457 Pope Callistus III Lucedio was from. given in Upcoming. Under the commendatory Francesco II Gonzaga, the monastery of the Cistercian Congregation Lombard joined. In 1784, the secularization and conversion was carried out in an estate. 1786 moved the monks in the repealed Jesuit College of Castelnuovo Scrivia.
After the French occupation of Piedmont Lucedio went over to Napoleon, which it by a decree in 1807 his brother Prince Camillo Borghese, the former main governor of Piedmont handed. 1822 took over the Marchese Giovanni Gozani of San Giorgio control Lucedios - an ancestor of the current owner - in 1861 for his part of the Marquis Raffaele de Ferrari, Duke of Galliera relinquished the estate. He was awarded the title of Prince of Lucedio. Finally, in 1937, the entire complex of Count Paolo Cavalli d' Olivola, the father of the current owner and manager was Countess Rosetta Clara Cavalli d' Olivola Salvadori di Wiessenhoff acquired.
The farm with the name Principato di Lucedio ( Principality Lucedio ) today mainly produces rice.
Plant and buildings
The monastery church of Santa Maria (now parish church ) was renewed as a baroque hall construction in 1769. Receive is still the original Campanile in Romanesque substructure from the period around 1170. Octagonal shaft can be dated to the first half of the 13th century. From the seclusion of the square chapter house with nine Jochen four columns of the mid-12th century (similar monastery Rivalta Scrivia ) was obtained. The guest quarters from the end of the 13th century has survived. There are several old Gran Gien in the surrounding area.