Santa Maria Arabona

Daughter monasteries

Monastery of Santa Maria dello Sterpeto ( 1259 )

Monastery Arabona (Santa Maria di Arabona ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Abruzzo, Italy. It was in the community Manoppello on a hill above the right bank of the Pescara river in the province of Pescara, in the diocese of Chieti.

History

It was founded in 1209 by the monastery of Tre Fontane in Rome. The monastery was thus at the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary. First abbot was the monk from the monastery Albimano Ferraria. The Cistercian order in 1259 the newly assigned Monastery of Santa Maria dello Sterpeto was assumed to Barletta monastery Arabona. Also in the Coming Arabona was established. Later, the Cistercian left the monastery, which was said to be already in 1412 no longer inhabited and was united in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. with the Apostle Roman basilica. Then moved into Arabona Friars Minor. Today, the convent of the Salesian Fathers is inhabited.

Plant and buildings

Probably the west did not complete three-nave church Monastery of light Roman travertine from Tivoli, each with a rose window in the apse and the transept is one of the most magnificent of the Cistercian Order in Italy. From the nave only the first yoke was completed. It contains a Gothic tabernacle. The back wall of the apse decorate three paintings by Antonio Martini di Atri from the 1377. The exam is partially preserved. After the Second World War, the church, the Foresterei and the chapter house were restored.