Oratory of the Paraclete
Le Paraclete (also Abbaye du Paraclet, Latin: Paraclitus, German: Paraclete, Monastery of the Paraclete or Comforter Monastery ) was a nunnery on the river Ardusson near Nogent -sur -Seine in the Champagne region. The town is located today in the field of community - Ferreux Quincey, Aube.
History
1122-1123 Peter Abelard founded a hermitage with an oratory, which he shortly afterwards inaugurated the Paraclete ( a biblical name for the Holy Spirit). Soon, students moved in to take lessons from the famous teacher of theology.
After Abelard had been elected in 1128 to the abbot of the monastery of Saint- Gildas- de -Rhuys, he left the Paraclete. Had sold as Abbot Suger of Saint- Denis in 1129, the Benedictine nuns of Argenteuil with their prioress, Abelard's wife Heloisa from their monastery, they gave Abelard the orphaned Estate in Champagne. Heloisa initially built as prioress and abbess from 1135 as the once prosperous monastery. Abelard wrote hymns, sermons and religious rules for the new convent and remained connected to Heloisa letter as a spiritual advisor.
The exact Monastery organization is not known, but the spatial system can be well developed due to the sources.
The control design Abelard, who was, however, more of the exegetical underpinnings of the new Order as its practical organization, does not seem to have been implemented in all parts; the traditional Institutiones nostrae orient themselves in their brief time on the usual standard, but during the lifetime of the first abbess in the documents is never of the Rule of St. Benedict, but always of the " ordo Paraclitensis " the speech. Heloisa stayed in the practical monastery organization to Abelard Council's attention to a little convent strength - the number of 20 choir nuns was also in the episode rarely exceeded - therefore developed a surface dressing with five smaller priories and a branch monastery in La Pommeraie ( as a retirement home for Mathilde of Carinthia, Countess of Champagne). Especially in the constitution of the latter stayed Heloisa embarrassing that the Order of the Paraclete by the high nobility could not be undermined, probably impressed by the negative development of the Order of Fontevraud, to which she had special affinity on family relationship. The mother monastery Paraclete himself entertained in the sequence shown to some priests and brothers for the management, a real men convent with the desired abbot Abelard at the top is not constituted. Soon, in 1147, Heloisa succeeded exemption from episcopal guardianship, by a Exemptionsbulle Pope Eugenius III.
In the so-called petit moustier of the Paraclete, probably on the site of Abelard 's former oratorio, Peter Abelard were in 1142 and Heloisa buried in 1164 in a common grave.
It was not until 1198, the Convention was by Pope Innocent III. placed under the rule of St. Benedict, the monastery association lasted nearly seven centuries in the sequence. The local worship of the monastery founder sat down to the last unbroken.
In the time of the French Revolution, the Convention was dissolved, the monastery buildings sold on November 14, 1792 by the state and almost completely removed until 1794.
The south of the Abbey Grange location of the monastery survived the French Revolution. Most of the buildings date from the early 17th century, when the farm was almost entirely rebuilt after a fire, the ancient -looking " Cellier aux Moines " is most in certain parts of the wall down to the early days back.
Today on the former monastery area is a manor house with the name " Maison abbatiale ", but it is a new building of the 19th century.
From the former monastery church, only the lower crypt has received in the once Heloisa and Abelard were buried. The place is decorated with a obelisk, next to it is a small memorial chapel recent.
The former floodplain forest is turned into a park. The entire property is now privately owned, but may at times be visited.