Santa Maria della Matina
Daughter monasteries
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The monastery Matina is a former Benedictine monastery in Calabria, Italy, which was acquired in 1222 by the Cistercians. It was around 4 km north-east of the bishopric San Marco Argentano in the province of Cosenza in the river Fullone, the drained by the river Crati in the Ionian Sea.
History
By Robert Guiscard and his wife Sikelgaita a Benedictine monastery was founded at the request of Pope Nicholas II in 1060. On March 31, the church was consecrated by order of Alexander II by the Archbishop Arnulf of Cosenza and the bishops Oddo of Rapolla and Lawrence of Malvito. On November 18, 1092 Pope Urban II visited the monastery. As already Alexander II had placed the abbey under papal protection, Matina is mentioned both in the older part of the Liber censuum as in the editorial office of chamberlain Cencius. The rich equipment could not prevent a decline towards the end of the 12th century. Joachim of Fiore rejected the offered him by King Tancred laying his monastery Fiore by Matina, which had apparently been left off. The speculations of the earlier Cistercian literature, Matina was Cistercian since 1180, which are repeated uncritically by Bedini, are contradicted by the documents from the family archives Aldobrandini. At the request of the abbot bonus of S. Maria di Sambucina commissioned Honorius III. In October 1221 Archbishop Luke of Cosenza, who had been abbot of Sambucina before his elevation to archbishop himself to move together with the Bishop of San Andreas Marco Argentano, the competent local bishop, the monastery Sambucina by Matina. The action took place in February 1222 and the approval of the Emperor Frederick II and was confirmed by law enforcement in June 1222 by the Pope. The name " Matina " remained the common, sometimes you will find suffixes like " Matinae de Sambucina " or " Matinae dictum Sambucinae ". Since 1410 the monastery has been, to come. 1633 it joined the kalabresisch - Lukan Cistercian Congregation. 1780 the monastery was dissolved, the Coming, however, consisted continued until 1809. Thereafter, the General Luigi Valentoni received the monastery, which transformed it into a commercial farm.
Plant and buildings
The church was re- built by the Cistercians in the Gothic style. She is still partly present. Get yourself have also furnished as a chapel, rib-vaulted chapter house with bundled Gothic columns, reminiscent of those in the monastery Casamari, the parlatorium and the Scriptorium.
Swell
- Alessandro Pratesi: Carte latine di Abbazie calabresi provenienti dall'Archivio Aldobrandini ( Studi e Testi 197), Vatican City 1958
- André Guillou: Les archives grecques de S. Maria della Matina. In: Byzantion 36 (1966 ) pp. 304-310