Les Feuillants Abbey, also Feuillant Abbey (french: Abbaye des Feuillants, ''Abbaye des Feuillans'' or ''de Feuillant'', also ''Abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Feuillants'', ''des Feuillans'' or ''de Feuillant''; la, Fulium), was a

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

monastery located in the present commune of

Labastide-Clermont Labastide-Clermont (; oc, La Bastida de Clarmont) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises ...

, about 8 kilometres south of

Rieumes Rieumes (; oc, Riumas) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and ...

, department of Haute-Garonne, France. From the 16th century it was the centre of the Cistercian reform movement to which it gave its name, the

Feuillants Feuillant and its plural Feuillants, a French word derived ultimately from the Latin for "leaf", can refer to the following: *Les Feuillants Abbey, also known as Feuillant Abbey ( la, Fulium), a Cistercian monastery in Labastide-Clermont, France *C ...

.Héliodore Castillon, as below

History

The abbey was founded in 1145 on land given by Count Bernhard IV of Comminges as a dependency of

Dalon Abbey Dalon Abbey ( la, Dalona; french: Abbaye de Dalon; oc, Abadiá de Dalon) is a former Cistercian monastery in Sainte-Trie, Dordogne, southwestern France. It is listed as a Monuments historiques, Historic Monument. History Dalon Abbey was founded ...

. In 1169 (or possibly 1163) the new foundation joined the Cistercian movement as a daughter house of

La Crête Abbey La Crête Abbey (french: Abbaye de La Crête, anciently ''La Chreste''; la, Crista alba) was a Cistercian monastery in the commune of Bourdons-sur-Rognon in the département of Haute-Marne, France. It was founded in 1121 as the second daughter ...

of the

filiation of Morimond Morimond Abbey is a religious complex in Parnoy-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne department, in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. It was the fourth of the four great daughter abbeys of Cîteaux Abbey, of primary importance in the spread of the Ci ...

. Later it became a daughter house of

Loc-Dieu Abbey Loc-Dieu Abbey is a Cistercian abbey located near Martiel, 9 km west from Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in the department of Aveyron in France. History Founded in 1123 in a place formerly called ''Locus Diaboli'' (Latin for "devil's place") due t ...

. From 1577 the ascetic reforms introduced by the

commendatory abbot A commendatory abbot ( la, abbas commendatarius) is an ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey ''in commendam'', drawing its revenues but not exercising any authority over its inner monastic discipline. If a commendatory abbot is an ...

Jean de la Barrière Jean Baptiste de la Barrière (; 1544–1600) was a religious figure. He was the commendatory abbot of Les Feuillants Abbey at the age of 19, and founder of the reformed Cistercian order that arose there, the Feuillants. During his life he bec ...

were practised here, and were so widely taken up in other monasteries that in 1589 the abbey became the head of the

as an independent order, which separated from the Cistercian Order. It was dissolved, along with the order of which it was the mother house, in 1791, during the French Revolution.

Buildings

There are very few visible remains of the structures of the abbey.

References

Sources

* Héliodore Castillon, ''Histoire des populations Pyrénéennes du Nébouzan et du pays de Comminges: depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'à la révolution de 89'', Toulouse, Delsol, 1885, 497 p.
online version

External links

Certosa di Firenze website

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